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Spring heat waves drive record western United States snow melt in 2021 by McEvoy, Daniel J, Hatchett, Benjamin J

“…Abstract Throughout the western US snow melted at an alarming rate in April 2021 and by May 1, hydrologic conditions were severely degraded with declining…”
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Drought Sensitivity and Trends of Riparian Vegetation Vigor in Nevada, USA (1985–2018) by Albano, Christine M., McGwire, Kenneth C., Hausner, Mark B., McEvoy, Daniel J., Morton, Charles G., Huntington, Justin L.

“…Dryland riparian areas are under increasing stress due to expanding human water demands and a warming climate. Quantifying responses of dryland riparian…”
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Decline in Seasonal Snow during a Projected 20-Year Dry Spell by Hatchett, Benjamin J., Rhoades, Alan M., McEvoy, Daniel J.

“…Snowpack loss in midlatitude mountains is ubiquitously projected by Earth system models, though the magnitudes, persistence, and time horizons of decline vary…”
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Downscaled subseasonal fire danger forecast skill across the contiguous United States by Abatzoglou, John T., McEvoy, Daniel J., Nauslar, Nicholas J., Hegewisch, Katherine C., Huntington, Justin L.

“…The increasing complexity and impacts of fire seasons in the United States have prompted efforts to improve early warning systems for wildland fire management…”
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Establishing Relationships between Drought Indices and Wildfire Danger Outputs: A Test Case for the California-Nevada Drought Early Warning System by Daniel J. McEvoy, Mike Hobbins, Timothy J. Brown, Kristin VanderMolen, Tamara Wall, Justin L. Huntington, Mark Svoboda

“…Relationships between drought indices and fire danger outputs are examined to (1) incorporate fire risk information into the National Integrated Drought…”
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The Evaporative Demand Drought Index. Part I: Linking Drought Evolution to Variations in Evaporative Demand by Hobbins, Michael T., Wood, Andrew, McEvoy, Daniel J., Huntington, Justin L., Morton, Charles, Anderson, Martha, Hain, Christopher

“…Many operational drought indices focus primarily on precipitation and temperature when depicting hydroclimatic anomalies, and this perspective can be augmented…”
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The Evaporative Demand Drought Index. Part II: CONUS-Wide Assessment against Common Drought Indicators by McEvoy, Daniel J., Huntington, Justin L., Hobbins, Michael T., Wood, Andrew, Morton, Charles, Anderson, Martha, Hain, Christopher

“…Precipitation, soil moisture, and air temperature are the most commonly used climate variables to monitor drought; however, other climatic factors such as…”
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CLIMATE ENGINE: Cloud Computing and Visualization of Climate and Remote Sensing Data for Advanced Natural Resource Monitoring and Process Understanding by Huntington, Justin L., Hegewisch, Katherine C., Daudert, Britta, Morton, Charles G., Abatzoglou, John T., McEvoy, Daniel J., Erickson, Tyler

“…Abstract The paucity of long-term observations, particularly in regions with heterogeneous climate and land cover, can hinder incorporating climate data at…”
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The West Wide Drought Tracker: Drought Monitoring at Fine Spatial Scales by Abatzoglou, John T., Mcevoy, Daniel J., Redmond, Kelly T.

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Monitoring the daily evolution and extent of snow drought by Hatchett, Benjamin J, Rhoades, Alan M, McEvoy, Daniel J

“…Snow droughts are commonly defined as below-average snowpack at a point in time, typically 1 April in the western United States (wUS). This definition is…”
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Improved seasonal drought forecasts using reference evapotranspiration anomalies by McEvoy, Daniel J., Huntington, Justin L., Mejia, John F., Hobbins, Michael T.

“…A novel contiguous United States (CONUS) wide evaluation of reference evapotranspiration (ET0; a formulation of evaporative demand) anomalies is performed…”
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Validation and Bias Correction of Forecast Reference Evapotranspiration for Agricultural Applications in Nevada by McEvoy, Daniel J., Roj, Shawn, Dunkerly, Christian, McGraw, David, Huntington, Justin L., Hobbins, Mike T., Ott, Thomas

“…AbstractAccurate estimates of reference evapotranspiration (ET0) are critical for estimating actual crop evapotranspiration and agricultural water use. This…”
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Assessing the effectiveness of riparian restoration projects using Landsat and precipitation data from the cloud-computing application ClimateEngine.org by Hausner, Mark B., Huntington, Justin L., Nash, Caroline, Morton, Charles, McEvoy, Daniel J., Pilliod, David S., Hegewisch, Katherine C., Daudert, Britta, Abatzoglou, John T., Grant, Gordon

“…•Landsat satellite and climate data can be used to quantify effectiveness of riparian restoration.•Remotely sensed data can serve as a proxy for on-site pre-…”
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Projected Changes in Reference Evapotranspiration in California and Nevada: Implications for Drought and Wildland Fire Danger by McEvoy, Daniel J., Pierce, David W., Kalansky, Julie F., Cayan, Daniel R., Abatzoglou, John T.

“…Recent high impact wildfires and droughts in California and Nevada have been linked to extremes in the Evaporative Demand Drought Index (EDDI) and Standardized…”
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Use of an Observation Network in the Great Basin to Evaluate Gridded Climate Data by McEvoy, Daniel J., Mejia, John F., Huntington, Justin L.

“…Predicting sharp hydroclimatic gradients in the complex terrain of the Great Basin can prove to be challenging because of the lack of climate observations that…”
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Satellite Assessment of Early-Season Forecasts for Vegetation Conditions of Grazing Allotments in Nevada, United States by McGwire, Kenneth C., Weltz, Mark A., Snyder, Keirith A., Huntington, Justin L., Morton, Charles G., McEvoy, Daniel J.

“…The extent and heterogeneity of rangelands in the state of Nevada (United States) pose a challenging situation for land managers when determining stocking…”
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The West Wide Drought Tracker: Drought Monitoring at Fine Spatial Scales by Abatzoglou, John T, Mcevoy, Daniel J, Redmond, Kelly T

“…Stakeholders from a range of sectors across the region whose interests include energy, wildfire, agriculture, and water resource management have expressed the…”
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CLIMATE ENGINE: Cloud Computing and Visualization of Climate and Remote Sensing Data for Advanced Natural Resource Monitoring and Process Understanding: Climate Engine enables users to process, visualize, download, and share climate and remote sensing datasets with a simple web connection, thereby overcoming common big data barriers by Huntington, Justin L, Hegewisch, Katherine C, Daudert, Britta, Morton, Charles G, Abatzoglou, John T, McEvoy, Daniel J, Erickson, Tyler

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Physically Based Evaporative Demand as a Drought Metric: Historical Analysis and Seasonal Prediction by McEvoy, Daniel J

“…Lack of sufficient early warning from drought monitoring and prediction tools that rely heavily on precipitation and soil moisture has prompted the need for…”
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An Evaluation of Multi-Scalar Drought Indices in Nevada and Eastern California by McEvoy, Daniel J

“…Nevada and eastern California are home to some of the driest and warmest climates, most mountainous regions, and fastest growing metropolitan areas of the…”
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