Future Fire Impacts on Smoke Concentrations, Visibility, and Health in the Contiguous United States by Ford, Bonne, Val Martin, Maria, Zelasky, Sarah, Fischer, Emily, Anenberg, Susan, Heald, Colette L., Pierce, Jeffrey

“…We find that PM2.5 concentrations will decrease overall in the contiguous United States (CONUS) due to decreasing anthropogenic emissions (total PM2.5 decreases by 3% in Representative Concentration Pathway [RCP] 8.5 and 34% in RCP4.5 by 2100), but increasing fire-related PM2.5 (fire-related PM2.5 increases by 55% in RCP4.5 and 190% in RCP8.5 by 2100) offsets these benefits and causes increases in total PM2.5 in some regions. …”
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SMAP Soil Moisture Change as an Indicator of Drought Conditions by Eswar, Rajasekaran, Das, Narendra N., Poulsen, Calvin, Behrangi, Ali, Swigart, John, Svoboda, Mark, Yueh, Simon, Doorn, Bradley, Entin, Jared, Rajasekaran, Eswar, Das, Narendra, Entekhabi, Dara

“…The change in soil moisture estimated from the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) satellite observations was compared with the United States Drought Monitor (USDM) and the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) over the contiguous United States (CONUS). The results indicated that the soil moisture change over 13-week and 26-week intervals is able to capture the changes in drought intensity levels in the USDM, and the change over a four-week interval correlated well with the one-month SPI values. …”
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Observational Evidence that Great Plains Irrigation Has Enhanced Summer Precipitation Intensity and Totals in the Midwestern United States by Fan, Ying, Lintner, Benjamin R., Weaver, Christopher P., Alter, Ross Evan

“…As a first step toward attribution of these precipitation changes, a detailed analysis of observed daily summer precipitation frequency and intensity is conducted for the contiguous United States over multiple spatial scales and time periods from 1895 to 2011. …”
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Estimation of Landscape Soil Water Losses from Satellite Observations of Soil Moisture by McColl, Kaighin A., Haghighi, Erfan, Salvucci, Guido D., Akbar, Ruzbeh, Gianotti, Daniel J, Entekhabi, Dara

“…This study presents an observation-driven technique to delineate the dominant boundaries and temporal shifts between different hydrologic regimes over the contiguous United States (CONUS). The energy- and water-limited evapotranspiration regimes as well as percolation to the subsurface are hydrologic processes that dominate the loss of stored water in the soil following precipitation events. …”
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