A review of the relationships between drought and forest fire in the United States

JS Littell, DL Peterson, KL Riley, Y Liu… - Global change …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The historical and presettlement relationships between drought and wildfire are well
documented in North America, with forest fire occurrence and area clearly increasing in …

Will seasonally dry tropical forests be sensitive or resistant to future changes in rainfall regimes?

K Allen, JM Dupuy, MG Gei, C Hulshof… - Environmental …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Seasonally dry tropical forests (SDTF) are located in regions with alternating wet and dry
seasons, with dry seasons that last several months or more. By the end of the 21st century …

Observed impacts of anthropogenic climate change on wildfire in California

AP Williams, JT Abatzoglou, A Gershunov… - Earth's …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Recent fire seasons have fueled intense speculation regarding the effect of anthropogenic
climate change on wildfire in western North America and especially in California. During …

Projected changes in temperature and precipitation over the United States, Central America, and the Caribbean in CMIP6 GCMs

M Almazroui, MN Islam, F Saeed, S Saeed… - Earth Systems and …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract The Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) dataset is used to
examine projected changes in temperature and precipitation over the United States (US) …

The future intensification of hourly precipitation extremes

AF Prein, RM Rasmussen, K Ikeda, C Liu… - Nature climate …, 2017 - nature.com
Extreme precipitation intensities have increased in all regions of the Contiguous United
States (CONUS) and are expected to further increase with warming at scaling rates of about …

Continental-scale convection-permitting modeling of the current and future climate of North America

C Liu, K Ikeda, R Rasmussen, M Barlage, AJ Newman… - Climate Dynamics, 2017 - Springer
Orographic precipitation and snowpack provide a vital water resource for the western US,
while convective precipitation accounts for a significant part of annual precipitation in the …

[HTML][HTML] On the future navigability of Arctic sea routes: High-resolution projections of the Arctic Ocean and sea ice

Y Aksenov, EE Popova, A Yool, AJG Nurser… - Marine Policy, 2017 - Elsevier
The rapid Arctic summer sea ice reduction in the last decade has lead to debates in the
maritime industries on the possibility of an increase in cargo transportation in the region …

Causes of the 2011–14 California drought

R Seager, M Hoerling, S Schubert, H Wang… - Journal of …, 2015 - journals.ametsoc.org
The causes of the California drought during November–April winters of 2011/12–2013/14
are analyzed using observations and ensemble simulations with seven atmosphere models …

Diversity in plant hydraulic traits explains seasonal and inter‐annual variations of vegetation dynamics in seasonally dry tropical forests

X Xu, D Medvigy, JS Powers, JM Becknell… - New …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
We assessed whether diversity in plant hydraulic traits can explain the observed diversity in
plant responses to water stress in seasonally dry tropical forests (SDTF s). The Ecosystem …

Consequences of global warming of 1.5 C and 2 C for regional temperature and precipitation changes in the contiguous United States

AV Karmalkar, RS Bradley - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
The differential warming of land and ocean leads to many continental regions in the
Northern Hemisphere warming at rates higher than the global mean temperature …