The historical and presettlement relationships between drought and wildfire are well
documented in North America, with forest fire occurrence and area clearly increasing in …

We reviewed existing and planned adaptation activities of federal, tribal, state, and local
governments and the private sector in the United States (US) to understand what types of …

Abstract Between 2000 and 2014, annual Colorado River flows averaged 19% below the
1906–1999 average, the worst 15‐year drought on record. At least one‐sixth to one‐half …

Tree-ring dating (dendrochronology) is a method of scientific dating based on the analysis of
tree-ring growth patterns. As author James Speer notes, trees are remarkable bioindicators …

The role of time in ecology has a long history of investigation, but ecologists have largely
restricted their attention to the influence of concurrent abiotic conditions on rates and …

POLICYFORUM combined with operations research, statistics, and welfare economics to
formulate design problems as trade-offs of costs, risks, and benefits dependent on variables …

Climate Explorer (www. climexp. knmi. nl) is a web-based application for climatic research
that is managed by the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) and contains a …

Abstract The western United States is a region long defined by water challenges. Climate
change adds to those historical challenges, but does not, for the most part, introduce entirely …

Mountains are essential sources of freshwater for our world, but their role in global water
resources could well be significantly altered by climate change. How well do we understand …

Storage and controlled distribution of water have been key elements of a human strategy to
overcome the space and time variability of water, which have been marked by catastrophic …