Fire effects on geomorphic processes

LA McGuire, BA Ebel, FK Rengers… - Nature reviews earth & …, 2024 - nature.com
Fire-induced geomorphic changes, such as enhanced erosion and debris-flow activity, are
expected to increase with climate change owing to increases in fire activity and rainfall …

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 …

Building water resilience in the face of cascading wildfire risks

MF Belongia, C Hammond Wagner, KQ Seipp… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Severe wildfire is altering the natural and the built environment and posing risks to
environmental and societal health and well-being, including cascading impacts to water …

Opportunities and challenges for precipitation forcing data in post‐wildfire hydrologic modeling applications

TF Partridge, ZC Johnson, RR Sleeter… - Wiley …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The frequency and extent of wildfires have increased in recent decades with immediate and
cascading effects on water availability in many regions of the world. Precipitation is used as …

A call for strategic water-quality monitoring to advance assessment and prediction of wildfire impacts on water supplies

SF Murphy, CN Alpers, CW Anderson, JR Banta… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Wildfires pose a risk to water supplies in the western US and many other parts of the world,
due to the potential for degradation of water quality. However, a lack of adequate data …

Suspended‐sediment response to wildfire and a major post‐fire flood on the Colorado Front Range

SE Ryan, CM Shobe, SL Rathburn… - River Research and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Wildfires, and the sediment‐rich floods that commonly follow, increasingly threaten riverine
ecosystems and water infrastructure. Suspended sediment exported throughout fire–flood …

Empirical models for postfire debris‐flow volume in the southwest United States

A Gorr, L McGuire, A Youberg - Journal of Geophysical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Improving our ability to relate postfire debris‐flow volume to rainfall characteristics, terrain
attributes, and fire severity is critical for quantifying postfire sediment yields from steep …

Multi‐stage soil‐hydraulic recovery and limited ravel accumulations following the 2017 Nuns and Tubbs wildfires in Northern California

JP Perkins, C Diaz, SC Corbett… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Wildfire can impact soil‐hydraulic properties by reducing saturated hydraulic conductivity
and sorptivity, making recently burned landscapes prone to debris flows and flash floods …

Quantification of Bioaccessible and Environmentally Relevant Trace Metals in Structure Ash from a Wildland–Urban Interface Fire

CM Villarruel, LA Figueroa… - Environmental Science & …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Wildfires at the wildland–urban interface (WUI) are increasing in frequency and intensity,
driven by climate change and anthropogenic ignitions. Few studies have characterized the …

[HTML][HTML] Wildfire impacts on the persistent suspended sediment dynamics of the Ventura River, California

N Jumps, AB Gray, JJ Guilinger, WC Cowger - Journal of Hydrology …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Region Ventura River watershed, California, USA Focus After wildfire, small
mountainous watersheds can produce dramatic increases in fluvial sediment transport, but …