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Downscaled subseasonal fire danger forecast skill across the contiguous United States
Abatzoglou, McEvoy, Nauslar, Hegewisch, Huntington
The increasing complexity and impacts of fire seasons in the United States have prompted efforts to improve early warning systems for wildland fire management. Outlooks of potential fire activity at lead-times of several weeks can help in wildland…
Year: 2023
Type: Document

Growing convergence research: coproducing climate projections to inform proactive decisions for managing simultaneous wildfire risk
Cullen, Prichard, Abatzoglou, Dolk, Kessenich, Bloem, Bukovsky, Humphrey, McGinnis, Skinner, Mearns
We apply a convergence research approach to the urgent need for proactive management of long-term risk associated with wildfire in the United States. In this work we define convergence research in accordance with the US National Science Foundation—…
Year: 2023
Type: Document

Reading the Tea Leaves: It’s Just Weird
Reeves
Season 4, Episode 4 of the monthly 'West-Wide Rangeland Fuel Assessment: Reading the Tea Leaves' webcast in which Dr. Matt Reeves, an RMRS Research Ecologist specializing in remote sensing and ecological modeling, analyzes current rangeland fuel…
Year: 2023
Type: Media

Reading the Tea Leaves: An Overview of the Fuel Situation in California
Reeves
Season 4, Episode 3 of the monthly 'West-Wide Rangeland Fuel Assessment: Reading the Tea Leaves' webcast in which Dr. Matt Reeves, an RMRS Research Ecologist specializing in remote sensing and ecological modeling, analyzes current rangeland fuel…
Year: 2023
Type: Media

Reading the Tea Leaves: Timing is Everything
Reeves
Season 4, Episode 2 of the monthly 'West-Wide Rangeland Fuel Assessment: Reading the Tea Leaves' webcast in which Dr. Matt Reeves, an RMRS Research Ecologist specializing in remote sensing and ecological modeling, analyzes current rangeland fuel…
Year: 2023
Type: Media

Reading the Tea Leaves: The Second Great Reversal
Reeves
Season 4, Episode 1 of the monthly 'West-Wide Rangeland Fuel Assessment: Reading the Tea Leaves' webcast in which Dr. Matt Reeves, an RMRS Research Ecologist specializing in remote sensing and ecological modeling, analyzes current rangeland fuel…
Year: 2023
Type: Media

Prescribed burns as a tool to mitigate future wildfire smoke exposure: lessons for states and rural environmental justice communities
Kelp, Carroll, Liu, Yantosca, Hockenberry, Mickley
Smoke from wildfires presents one of the greatest threats to air quality, public health, and ecosystems in the United States, especially in the West. Here we quantify the efficacy of prescribed burning as an intervention for mitigating smoke…
Year: 2023
Type: Document

Arctic Oscillation and Pacific-North American pattern dominated-modulation of fire danger and wildfire occurrence
Justino, Bromwich, Schumacher, Silva, Wang
Based on statistical analyses and Arctic Oscillation (AO) and the Pacific-North American pattern (PNA) induced climate anomalies in the 2001–2020 interval, it has been found that these climate modes drastically influence the fire danger (PFIv2) in…
Year: 2022
Type: Document

Climate change and altered fire regimes: impacts on plant populations, species, and ecosystems in both hemispheres
Harvey, Enright
Extreme fire seasons in both hemispheres in 2019 and 2020 have highlighted the strong link between climate warming and altered fire regimes. While shifts in fire regimes alone can drive profound changes in plant populations, communities, and…
Year: 2022
Type: Document

Effective Communication about Wildfire Management: Observations from 20 Years of Fire Social Science Research
McCaffrey
Fire management in the United States is currently facing numerous challenges. While many of these challenges involve questions about how to increase pace and scale of fuels treatments and adapt to longer, sometimes year-round, fire seasons and more…
Year: 2022
Type: Media