Viewing river corridors through the lens of critical zone science

AS Wymore, AS Ward, E Wohl, JW Harvey - Frontiers in Water, 2023 - frontiersin.org
River corridors integrate the active channels, geomorphic floodplain and riparian areas, and
hyporheic zone while receiving inputs from the uplands and groundwater and exchanging …

[HTML][HTML] Drivers of California's changing wildfires: a state-of-the-knowledge synthesis

G MacDonald, T Wall, CAF Enquist… - … journal of wildland …, 2023 - CSIRO Publishing
Over the past four decades, annual area burned has increased significantly in California and
across the western USA. This trend reflects a confluence of intersecting factors that affect …

Declines in peak snow water equivalent and elevated snowmelt rates following the 2020 Cameron Peak wildfire in Northern Colorado

D McGrath, L Zeller, R Bonnell, W Reis… - Geophysical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Wildfires are increasingly impacting high‐elevation forests in the western United States that
accumulate seasonal snowpacks, presenting a major disturbance to a critical water reservoir …

[HTML][HTML] Changing climate and disturbance effects on southwestern US forests

MD Hurteau, R Baker, K Gonterman, A Granath… - Forest Ecology and …, 2025 - Elsevier
Changing climate and its interaction with disturbances is resha** forests of the western
United States and southwestern forests are experiencing these changes at an accelerated …

Anticipating how rain-on-snow events will change through the 21st century: lessons from the 1997 new year's flood event

AM Rhoades, CM Zarzycki, BJ Hatchett, H Inda-Diaz… - Climate Dynamics, 2024 - Springer
Abstract The California-Nevada 1997 New Year's flood was an atmospheric river (AR)-
driven rain-on-snow (RoS) event and remains the costliest in their history. The joint …

Reinterpreting ENSO's role in modulating impactful precipitation events in California

K Guirguis, B Hatchett, A Gershunov… - Geophysical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Water years (WY) 2017 and 2023 were anomalously wet for California, each
alleviating multiyear drought. In both cases, this was unexpected given La Niña conditions …

Subseasonal prediction of impactful california winter weather in a hybrid dynamical‐statistical framework

K Guirguis, A Gershunov, BJ Hatchett… - Geophysical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Atmospheric rivers (ARs) and Santa Ana winds (SAWs) are impactful weather
events for California communities. Emergency planning efforts and resource management …

The severity of the 2014–2015 snow drought in the Oregon Cascades in a multicentury context

LA Dye, BL Coulthard, BJ Hatchett… - Water Resources …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The western United States (US) is a hotspot for snow drought. The Oregon Cascade
Range is highly sensitive to warming and as a result has experienced the largest mountain …

Comparisons of Montane Snow Water Equivalent Projections: Calculating Total Snow Mass in Regions with Projection Agreement and Divergence in the Western …

JM Pflug, SV Kumar, B Livneh, ED Gutmann… - Journal of …, 2025 - journals.ametsoc.org
Montane snowpack is a vital source of water in the western United States. Here, we use a
large-ensemble approach to evaluate the agreement across 124 snow water equivalent …

Post-fire reference densities for giant sequoia seedlings

N Stephenson, A Caprio, D Soderberg, A Das, E Lopez… - 2023 - ecoevorxiv.org
In some areas burned by recent wildfires, most or all giant sequoias were killed. Sequoia
managers wish to know whether post-fire seedling establishment in those areas has been …