Modeling Post‐Wildfire Hydrologic Response: Review and Future Directions for Applications of Physically Based Distributed Simulation

BA Ebel, ZM Shephard, MA Walvoord… - Earth's …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Wildfire is a growing concern as climate shifts. The hydrologic effects of wildfire, which
include elevated hazards and changes in water quantity and quality, are increasingly …

[HTML][HTML] How do forest fires affect soil greenhouse gas emissions in upland boreal forests? A review

C Ribeiro-Kumara, E Köster, H Aaltonen… - Environmental Research, 2020 - Elsevier
Wildfires strongly regulate carbon (C) cycling and storage in boreal forests and account for
almost 10% of global fire C emissions. However, the anticipated effects of climate change on …

Importance of subsurface water for hydrological response during storms in a post-wildfire bedrock landscape

A Atwood, M Hille, MK Clark, F Rengers… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Wildfire alters the hydrologic cycle, with important implications for water supply and hazards
including flooding and debris flows. In this study we use a combination of electrical resistivity …

Wildfire-induced shifts in groundwater discharge to streams identified with paired air and stream water temperature analyses

DM Rey, MA Briggs, MA Walvoord, BA Ebel - Journal of Hydrology, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Within the western United States, increasingly severe and frequent wildfires may
alter the magnitude, timing, and quality of water exported from burned areas by streams …

Parameter estimation for multiple post‐wildfire hydrologic models

BA Ebel, JA Moody - Hydrological Processes, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Predictions of post‐wildfire flooding and debris flows are needed, typically with short lead
times. Measurements of soil‐hydraulic properties necessary for model parameterization are …

North American boreal forests are a large carbon source due to wildfires from 1986 to 2016

B Zhao, Q Zhuang, N Shurpali, K Köster, F Berninger… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Wildfires are a major disturbance to forest carbon (C) balance through both immediate
combustion emissions and post-fire ecosystem dynamics. Here we used a process-based …

Predicting wildfire induced changes to runoff: A review and synthesis of modeling approaches

D Partington, M Thyer, M Shanafield… - Wiley …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Wildfires elicit a diversity of hydrological changes, impacting processes that drive both water
quantity and quality. As wildfires increase in frequency and severity, there is a need to …

The evolution of sediment sources over a sequence of postfire sediment‐laden flows revealed through repeat high‐resolution change detection

JJ Guilinger, AB Gray, NC Barth… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Postfire debris flows are particularly complex to study because they do not form discrete
initiation locations and commonly involve multiple simultaneously operating erosional …

Hydrologic responses to wildfires in western Oregon, USA

H Kang, RP Cole, L Miralha, JE Compton… - Journal of Hydrology, 2024 - Elsevier
Wildfires can dramatically alter vegetation cover and soil properties across large scales,
resulting in substantial shifts in runoff generation, streamflow, and water quality. In …

Progress in simplifying hydrologic model parameterization for broad applications to post‐wildfire flooding and debris‐flow hazards

FK Rengers, LA McGuire, JW Kean… - Earth Surface …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Predicting the timing of overland flow in burned watersheds can help to estimate debris‐flow
timing and the location of debris‐flow initiation. Numerical models can produce flow …