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Raoelison, Valenca, Lee, Karim, Webster, Poulin, Mohanty
Surface runoff mobilizes the burned residues and ashes produced during wildfires and deposits them in surface waters, thereby deteriorating water quality. A lack of a consistent reporting protocol precludes a quantitative understanding of how and to…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
East, AghaKouchak, Caprarelli, Filippelli, Florindo, Luce, Rajaram, Russell, Santín, Santos
Fire has always been an important component of many ecosystems, but anthropogenic global climate change is now altering fire regimes over much of Earth's land surface, spurring a more urgent need to understand the physical, biological, and chemical…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Dickman, Jonko, Linn, Altintas, Atchley, Bär, Collins, Dupuy, Gallagher, Hiers, Hoffman, Hood, Hurteau, Jolly, Josephson, Loudermilk, Ma, Michaletz, Nolan, O'Brien, Parsons, Feltrin, Pimont, de Dios, Restaino, Robbins, Sartor, Schultz-Fellenz, Serbin, Sevanto, Shuman, Sieg, Skowronski, Weise, Wright, Xu, Yebra, Younes
Wildfires are a global crisis, but current fire models fail to capture vegetation response to changing climate. With drought and elevated temperature increasing the importance of vegetation dynamics to fire behavior, and the advent of next…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Barnard, Green, Mankin, DeJonge, Rhoades, Kampf, Giovando, Wilkins, Mahood, Sears, Comas, Gleason, Zhang, Fassnacht, Harmel, Altenhofen
Agricultural production in the western United States relies on water supplies from mountain source-water systems that are sensitive to impacts from wildfire and a changing climate. The resultant challenges to water supply forecasting directly impact…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
[Executive Summary] The Wildland Fire Leadership Council (WFLC) presents this Addendum Update, to spotlight wildland fire critical emphasis areas and challenges that were not identified or addressed in depth in the 2014 National Cohesive Wildland…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Samuels-Crow, Peltier, Liu, Guo, Welker, Anderegg, Koch, Schwalm, Litvak, Shaw, Ogle
Forest dynamics in arid and semiarid regions are sensitive to water availability, which is becoming increasingly scarce as global climate changes. The timing and magnitude of precipitation in the semiarid southwestern U.S. (“Southwest”) has changed…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
To collect partner and employee input on the Wildfire Crisis Strategy 10-year Implementation Plan, the Forest Service and National Forest Foundation hosted a series of roundtable discussions in the winter and spring of 2022. Individual roundtables…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Giovando, Niemann
Snowpack in the western U.S. is critical for water supply and is threatened by wildfires, which are becoming larger and more common. Numerous studies have examined impacts of wildfire on snow water equivalent (SWE), but many of these studies are…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Williams, Livneh, McKinnon, Hansen, Mankin, Cook, Smerdon, Varuolo-Clarke, Bjarke, Juang, Lettenmaier
Streamflow often increases after fire, but the persistence of this effect and its importance to present and future regional water resources are unclear. This paper addresses these knowledge gaps for the western United States (WUS), where annual…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Boyer, Wagenbrenner, Zhang
Climate change is a crucial factor in increasing wildfire risks, where warmer and drier conditions, increased drought periods, and increased lightning strikes have made many areas more susceptible to burning. This special issue focuses on Wildfire…
Year: 2022
Type: Document