Impacts of increasing aridity and wildfires on aerosol loading in the intermountain Western US

Feedbacks between climate warming, land surface aridity, and wildfire-derived aerosols represent a large source of uncertainty in future climate predictions. Here, long-term observations of aerosol optical depth, surface level aerosol loading, fire-area burned, and hydrologic simulations are used to...

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Main Authors: A Gannet Hallar, Noah P Molotch, Jenny L Hand, Ben Livneh, Ian B McCubbin, Ross Petersen, Joseph Michalsky, Douglas Lowenthal, Kenneth E Kunkel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2017-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aa510a