Climate influences on future fire severity: a synthesis of climate-fire interactions and impacts on fire regimes, high-severity fire, and forests in the western United States

TN Wasserman, SE Mueller - Fire Ecology, 2023 - Springer
Background Increases in fire activity and changes in fire regimes have been documented in
recent decades across the western United States. Climate change is expected to continue to …

Global change impacts on cacti (Cactaceae): current threats, challenges and conservation solutions

KR Hultine, T Hernández-Hernández… - Annals of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background The plant family Cactaceae provides some of the most striking
examples of adaptive evolution, expressing undeniably the most spectacular New World …

Western water and climate change

M Dettinger, B Udall, A Georgakakos - Ecological Applications, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Urban forestry and cool roofs: Assessment of heat mitigation strategies in Phoenix residential neighborhoods

A Middel, N Chhetri, R Quay - Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract The City of Phoenix (Arizona, USA) developed a Tree and Shade Master Plan and
a Cool Roofs initiative to ameliorate extreme heat during the summer months in their arid …

Droughts, floods, and wildfires

MF Wehner, JR Arnold, T Knutson… - … science special report …, 2017 - ntrs.nasa.gov
Recent droughts and associated heat waves have reached record intensity in some regions
of the United States; however, by geographical scale and duration, the Dust Bowl era of the …

Crop evapotranspiration, irrigation water requirement and water productivity of maize from meteorological data under semiarid climate

K Djaman, M O'neill, CK Owen, D Smeal, K Koudahe… - Water, 2018 - mdpi.com
Under the semiarid climate of the Southwest United States, accurate estimation of crop water
use is important for water management and planning under conservation agriculture. The …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding uncertainties in future Colorado River streamflow

JA Vano, B Udall, DR Cayan… - Bulletin of the …, 2014 - journals.ametsoc.org
Understanding Uncertainties in Future Colorado River Streamflow in: Bulletin of the American
Meteorological Society Volume 95 Issue 1 (2014) Jump to Content Logo Logo Logo Logo …

Regional hydrologic response to climate change in the conterminous United States using high-resolution hydroclimate simulations

BS Naz, SC Kao, M Ashfaq, D Rastogi, R Mei… - Global and Planetary …, 2016 - Elsevier
Despite the fact that Global Climate Model (GCM) outputs have been used to project
hydrologic impacts of climate change using off-line hydrologic models for two decades …

Determining the importance of model calibration for forecasting absolute/relative changes in streamflow from LULC and climate changes

R Niraula, T Meixner, LM Norman - Journal of Hydrology, 2015 - Elsevier
Land use/land cover (LULC) and climate changes are important drivers of change in
streamflow. Assessing the impact of LULC and climate changes on streamflow is typically …

Limits of thermal and hydrological tolerance in a foundation tree species (Populus fremontii) in the desert southwestern United States

ME Moran, LMT Aparecido, DF Koepke… - New …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Populus fremontii is among the most dominant, and ecologically important riparian tree
species in the western United States and can thrive in hyper‐arid riparian corridors. Yet, P …