Elevation-dependent intensification of fire danger in the western United States

Elevation-dependent warming trends have been previously identified, but its effect on fire danger is still unclear. Here the authors show that there has been widespread increases in fire danger across the mountainous western US from 1979 to 2020 with most acute trends at high-elevation regions above...

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Main Authors: Mohammad Reza Alizadeh, John T. Abatzoglou, Jan Adamowski, Arash Modaresi Rad, Amir AghaKouchak, Francesco S. R. Pausata, Mojtaba Sadegh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-03-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37311-4