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Publications

2025

The 2023 wildfires in British Columbia, Canada: impacts, drivers, and transformations to coexist with wildfire
Lori D. Daniels et al.

2024

Drought before fire increases tree mortality after fire
C. Alina Cansler et al.
Attributing human mortality from fire PM2.5 to climate change
Chae Yeon Park et al.
Can climate variability and landscape position predict white pine blister rust incidence, mortality due to the disease, and regeneration in whitebark pine?
Vladimir Kovalenko et al.
Centering socioecological connections to collaboratively manage post-fire vegetation shifts
Kimberly T. Davis et al.

2023

Contrasting characteristics of atmospheric rivers and their impacts on 2016 and 2020 wildfire seasons over the western United States
Ju-Mee Ryoo et al.

2022

Factors Influencing Risk during Wildfires: Contrasting Divergent Regions in the US
Erin Noonan-Wright et al.

2020

Warmer and drier fire seasons contribute to increases in area burned at high severity in western US forests from 1985‐2017
Sean A. Parks et al.
Forest management under megadrought: urgent needs at finer-scale and higher-intensity
Jason P. Field et al.

2019

Examining post-fire vegetation recovery with Landsat time series analysis in three western North American forest types
Benjamin C. Bright et al.

2018

Human impacts on 20th century fire dynamics and implications for global carbon and water trajectories
Fang Li et al.
Effects of climate change on ecological disturbance in the Northern Rockies (Chapter 7)
Rachel A. Loehman et al.

2017

Climate change and the eco-hydrology of fire: will area burned increase in a warming western USA?
Donald McKenzie et al.
Towards improving wildland firefighter situational awareness through daily fire behaviour risk assessments in the US Northern Rockies and Northern Great Basin
William Matt Jolly et al.
Human presence diminishes the importance of climate in driving fire activity across the United States
Alexandra D. Syphard et al.
Effects of climate oscillations on wildland fire potential in the continental United States
Shelby A. Mason et al.
Selective breeding of lodgepole pine increases growth and maintains climatic adaptation
Ian R. MacLachlan et al.
Fine‐scale spatial climate variation and drought mediate the likelihood of reburning
Sean A. Parks et al.
Wildfire–vegetation dynamics affect predictions of climate change impact on bird communities
Adrián Regos et al.
Analog-based fire regime and vegetation shifts in mountainous regions of the western US
Sean A. Parks et al.
Trend analysis of fire season length and extreme fire weather in North America between 1979 and 2015
Piyush Jain et al.
Effects of climate change on rangeland vegetation in the Northern Rockies
Matthew C. Reeves et al.
Climate drives inter-annual variability in probability of high severity fire occurrence in the western United States
Alisa Keyser et al.
Direct and indirect climate controls predict heterogeneous early-mid 21st century wildfire burned area across western and boreal North America
Thomas Kitzberger et al.
Disturbance and productivity interactions mediate stability of forest composition and structure
Christopher D. O'Connor et al.
The normal fire environment—Modeling environmental suitability for large forest wildfires using past, present, and future climate normals
Raymond J. Davis et al.
Disturbances catalyze the adaptation of forest ecosystems to changing climate conditions
Dominik Thom et al.
Spatio-Temporal Linkages between Declining Arctic Sea-Ice Extent and Increasing Wildfire Activity in the Western United States
Paul A. Knapp et al.

2016

How will climate change affect wildland fire severity in the western US?
Sean A. Parks et al.
Increasing western US forest wildfire activity: sensitivity to changes in the timing of spring
Anthony L. Westerling
Recent advances and remaining uncertainties in resolving past and future climate effects on global fire activity
A. Park Williams et al.
Topographic and fire weather controls of contemporary fire refugia in forested ecosystems of northwestern North America
Meg A. Krawchuk et al.
A new method comparing snowmelt timing with annual area burned
Donal S. O'Leary et al.
Particulate air pollution from wildfires in the western US under climate change
Jia Coco Liu et al.
Mid-21st-century climate changes increase predicted fire occurrence and fire season length, Northern Rocky Mountains, United States
Karen L. Riley et al.
Spatial coherence of extreme precipitation events in the Northwestern United States
Lauren E. Parker et al.
Global trends in wildfire and its impacts: perceptions versus realities in a changing world
Stefan H. Doerr et al.
Human-caused climate change is now a key driver of forest fire activity in the western United States
Brian J. Harvey
Using scientific conferences to engage the public on climate change
Jeffrey A. Hicke et al.

2015

Biomass and fire dynamics in a temperate forest-grassland mosaic: Integrating multi-species herbivory, climate, and fire with the FireBGCv2/GrazeBGC system
Robert A. Riggs et al.
The climate space of fire regimes in north-western North America
Ellen Whitman et al.
The changing strength and nature of fire-climate relationships in the northern Rocky Mountains, U.S.A., 1902-2008
Philip E. Higuera et al.
The cost of climate change: ecosystem services and wildland fires
Christine Lee et al.
The potential impact of regional climate change on fire weather in the United States
Ying Tang et al.
Climate-induced variations in global wildfire danger from 1979 to 2013
William Matt Jolly et al.
Indicators of climate change in Idaho: an assessment framework for coupling biophysical change and social perception
P. Zion Klos
Climate change presents increased potential for very large fires in the contiguous United States
Renaud Barbero et al.
Projected major fire and vegetation changes in the Pacific Northwest of the conterminous United States under selected CMIP5 climate futures
Timothy J. Sheehan et al.
Improved Bias Correction Techniques for Hydrological Simulations of Climate Change
David W. Pierce et al.
Seasonal reversal of the influence of El Niño–Southern Oscillation on very large wildfire occurrence in the interior northwestern United States
Renaud Barbero et al.

2014

Fire activity and severity in the western US vary along proxy gradients representing fuel amount and fuel moisture
Sean A. Parks et al.
A primer on global climate-change science
John T. Abatzoglou et al.
Regional projections of the likelihood of very large wildland fires under a changing climate in the contiguous western United States
E. Natasha Stavros et al.
Current climate and recent trends
Kelly T. Redmond et al.
The climate-wildfire-air quality system: interactions and feedbacks across spatial and temporal scales
E. Natasha Stavros et al.
Climate change impacts on fire regimes and key ecosystem services in Rocky Mountain forests
Monique E. Rocca et al.
Climate change effects, adaptation, and mitigation
John T. Abatzoglou et al.
Climate and very large wildland fires in the contiguous western USA
E. Natasha Stavros et al.
Seasonal climate variability and change in the Pacific Northwest of the United States
John T. Abatzoglou et al.
Climate change 2014: Mitigation of climate change
Observed changes in false springs over the contiguous United States
Alexander G. Peterson et al.

2013

Climate change in the Northwest
Philip W. Mote et al.
The climate velocity of the contiguous United States during the 20th century
Solomon Z. Dobrowski et al.
The missing mountain water: slower westerlies decrease orographic enhancement in the Pacific Northwest USA
Charles H. Luce et al.
Climatic stress increases forest fire severity across the western United States
Phillip J. van Mantgem et al.
Culture, law, risk and governance: contexts of traditional knowledge in climate change adaptation
Terry Williams et al.
Evaluation of CMIP5 20th century climate simulations for the Pacific Northwest USA
David E. Rupp et al.
Managing forests and fire in changing climates
Scott L. Stephens et al.

2012

Climate extremes and their linkage to regional drought over Idaho, USA
Mohammad Sohrabi et al.
Climate and vegetation influences on fire impacts in Alaskan boreal forest: implications for carbon and fire management
Crystal A. Kolden et al.

2011

Changes in climatic water balance drive downhill shifts in plant species optimum elevations
Shawn M. Crimmins et al.
Influence of the PNA on declining mountain snowpack in the western United States
John T. Abatzoglou
Wildfire extent and severity correlated with annual streamflow distribution and timing in the Pacific Northwest, USA (1984-2005)
Zachary A. Holden et al.
Climate change in western US deserts: potential for increased wildfire and invasive annual grasses
John T. Abatzoglou et al.
Empirical downscaling of daily minimum air temperature at very fine resolutions in complex terrain
Zachary A. Holden et al.
Continued warming could transform Greater Yellowstone fire regimes by mid-21st century
Anthony L. Westerling et al.

2010

A century of climate and ecosystem change in Western Montana: what do temperature trends portend?
Gregory T. Pederson et al.

2009

Learning the rhythm of the seasons in the face of global change: phenological research in the 21st century
Jeffrey T. Morrisette et al.
Climate and wildfire area burned in western U.S. ecoprovinces, 1916-2003
Jeremy S. Littell et al.
Influence of the Madden Julian Oscillation on summertime cloud-to-ground lightning activity over the continental US
John T. Abatzoglou et al.
How much influence does landscape-scale physiography have on air temperature in a mountain environment?
Solomon Z. Dobrowski et al.

2008

Climate change effects on historical range and variability of two large landscapes in western Montana, USA
Robert E. Keane et al.
Climate drivers of regionally synchronous fires in the inland northwest (1651-1900)
Emily K. Heyerdahl et al.
Multi-season climate synchronized forest fires throughout the 20th century, Northern Rockies, USA
Penelope Morgan et al.
Climate and forest wildfire in the western US
Anthony L. Westerling
Multi-season climate synchronized historical fires in dry forests (1650-1900), Northern Rockies, USA
Emily K. Heyerdahl et al.

2007

The asymmetry of trends in spring and autumn temperature and circulation regimes over western North America
John T. Abatzoglou et al.
Climate Change: what it means for us, our children, and our grandchildren
J.F.C. DiMento et al.

2006

Planetary wave breaking and nonlinear reflection: seasonal cycle and interannual variability
John T. Abatzoglou et al.
Warming and earlier spring increase western U.S. forest wildfire activity
Anthony L. Westerling et al.
Is global warming causing more, larger wildfires?
Steven W. Running

2004

The impact of twenty-first century climate change on wildland fire danger in the western United States: an applications perspective
Timothy J. Brown et al.
Climatic changes, wildfire, and conservation
Donald McKenzie et al.

2003

The role of climate and vegetation change in shaping past and future fire regimes in the northwestern U.S. and the implications for ecosystem management
Cathy L. Whitlock et al.

2001

Climate change and forest disturbances
Virginia H. Dale et al.

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