Advancing Understanding and Prediction of Droughts from Observations, Physical Process-based Models, and Machine Learning

Drought extremes have cascading impacts on agriculture, ecosystems, water resources, and human health. Forecasting droughts remains challenging without resolving tightly coupled soil–plant–atmospher...

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Data Science for Weather and Climate Extremes: Risks, Drivers, and Impacts

As weather and climate extremes intensify in frequency and magnitude, there is a pressing need to draw on observational records, empirical methods, and cross-disciplinary research to better characteri...

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Residential Structure Survivability to Large Wildfires in the United States

Around half a million homes were exposed to large fires in the US, with 68% of exposures and a sixfold increase during 2001–2020 in the West Survivability declined by 12% in the western US in the...

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Heatwaves enable wildfire activity in the western United States

Heatwaves are associated with a disproportionate share of wildfire activity and trends in the western US in recent decades.

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Increasing global human exposure to wildland fires despite declining burned area

Although half of Earth’s population resides in the wildland-urban interface, human exposure to wildland fires remains unquantified. We show that the population directly exposed to wildland fires incre...

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Compounding effects of climate change and WUI expansion quadruple the likelihood of extreme-impact wildfires in California - npj Natural Hazards

npj Natural Hazards - Compounding effects of climate change and WUI expansion quadruple the likelihood of extreme-impact wildfires in California

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