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The impact of twenty-first century climate change on wildland fire danger in the western United States: an applications perspective
High-temporal resolution meteorological output from the Parallel Climate Model (PCM) is used to assess changes in wildland fire danger across the western United States due to climatic changes projected in the 21st century. A business-as-usual…
Author(s): Timothy J. Brown, Beth L. Hall, Anthony L. Westerling
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Climatic changes, wildfire, and conservation
Climatic variability is a dominant factor affecting large wildfires in the western United States, an observation supported by palaeoecological data on charcoal in lake sediments and reconstructions from fire-scarred trees. Although current fire…
Author(s): Donald McKenzie, Ze'ev Gedalof, David L. Peterson, Philip W. Mote
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Western forest, fire risk, and climate change
Climate warming may first show up in forests as increased growth, which occurs as warmer temperatures, increased carbon dioxide, and more precipitation encourage higher rates of photosynthesis. The second way that climate change may show up in…
Author(s): Valerie A. Rapp
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