A Multifactor Eigenvector Spatial Filtering-Based Method for Resolution-Enhanced Snow Water Equivalent Estimation in the Western United States by Yuejun Chen, Yumin Chen, John P. Wilson, Jiaxin Yang, Heng Su, Rui Xu

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Water Price Prediction for Increasing Market Efficiency Using Random Forest Regression: A Case Study in the Western United States by Ziyao Xu, Jijian Lian, Lingling Bin, Kaixun Hua, Kui Xu, Hoi Yi Chan

“…This paper proposes three random forest regression models (RFR) to predict water price in the western United States: a full variable set model and two reduced ones with optimal numbers of variables using a backward variable elimination (BVE) approach. …”
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Widespread exposure to altered fire regimes under 2 °C warming is projected to transform conifer forests of the Western United States by Tyler J. Hoecker, Sean A. Parks, Meade Krosby, Solomon Z. Dobrowski

“…Here, for the western United States, we used climate analogs to measure exposure to fire-regime change; quantified the direction and spatial distribution of changes in burn severity; and intersected exposure with fire-resistance trait data. …”
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In the Shadow of the Mountain: A Socio-Historical Case Study on Rapid Population Growth in Two Neighboring Population Centers in the Western United States by Michael R. Cope, Scott R. Sanders, Carol Ward, Kirk D. Young, Haylie M. June

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Evaluating the Shelf Life and Sensory Properties of Beef Steaks from Cattle Raised on Different Grass Feeding Systems in the Western United States by Toni L. Duarte, Bakytzhan Bolkenov, Sarah C. Klopatek, James W. Oltjen, D. Andy King, Steven D. Shackelford, Tommy L. Wheeler, Xiang Yang

“…This interest has led to a growing demand for niche market beef, particularly in the western United States. Therefore, the objective of this study was to assess the impact of feeding systems on the change in microbial counts, color, and lipid oxidation of steaks during retail display, and on their sensory attributes. …”
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Wildfire and climate change amplify knowledge gaps linking mountain source-water systems and agricultural water supply in the western United States by David M. Barnard, Timothy R. Green, Kyle R. Mankin, Kendall C. DeJonge, Charles C. Rhoades, Stephanie K. Kampf, Jeremy Giovando, Mike J. Wilkins, Adam L. Mahood, Megan G. Sears, Louise H. Comas, Sean M. Gleason, Huihui Zhang, Steven R. Fassnacht, R. Daren Harmel, Jon Altenhofen

“…Agricultural production in the western United States relies on water supplies from mountain source-water systems that are sensitive to impacts from wildfire and a changing climate. …”
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Tree mortality from fires, bark beetles, and timber harvest during a hot and dry decade in the western United States (2003–2012) by Logan T Berner, Beverly E Law, Arjan J H Meddens, Jeffrey A Hicke

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Multi-Species Inference of Exotic Annual and Native Perennial Grasses in Rangelands of the Western United States Using Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 Data by Devendra Dahal, Neal J. Pastick, Stephen P. Boyte, Sujan Parajuli, Michael J. Oimoen, Logan J. Megard

“…The invasion of exotic annual grass (EAG), e.g., cheatgrass (<i>Bromus tectorum</i>) and medusahead (<i>Taeniatherum caput-medusae</i>), into rangeland ecosystems of the western United States is a broad-scale problem that affects wildlife habitats, increases wildfire frequency, and adds to land management costs. …”
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Downscaled hyper-resolution (400&thinsp;m) gridded datasets of daily precipitation and temperature (2008–2019) for the East–Taylor subbasin (western United States) by U. Mital, D. Dwivedi, J. B. Brown, J. B. Brown, C. I. Steefel

“…This work presents gridded datasets of daily precipitation and mean temperature for the East–Taylor subbasin (in the western United States) covering a 12-year period (2008–2019) at a high spatial resolution (400 m). …”
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Field observations and remote assessment identify climate change, recreation, invasive species, and livestock as top threats to critically imperiled rare plants in Nevada by Jamey D. McClinton, Jamey D. McClinton, Sarah M. Kulpa, Eliza M. Grames, Elizabeth A. Leger

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Preliminary exploration of the health and behavior around the time of transportation of beef × dairy calves and Holstein bull calves 3 days of age or younger in the western United States by M.C. Cramer, E. Machuca, I.N. Román-Muñiz, L.N. Edwards-Callaway

“…ABSTRACT: In the western United States, it is common practice for dairy and beef × dairy calves to be sold and shipped within the first few days of life, making transportation one of the first challenges that a calf will experience. …”
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Impact of Wildfires on Meteorology and Air Quality (PM_2.5 and O₃) over Western United States during September 2017 by Amit Sharma, Ana Carla Fernandez Valdes, Yunha Lee

“…In this study, we investigated the impact of wildfires on meteorology and air quality (PM_2.5 and O₃) over the western United States during the September 2017 period. This is done by using Weather Research and Forecasting model coupled with Chemistry (WRF-Chem) to simulate scenarios with wildfires (base case) and without wildfires (sensitivity case). …”
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Comparisons of Performance Using Data Assimilation and Data Fusion Approaches in Acquiring Precipitable Water Vapor: A Case Study of a Western United States of America Area by Zhaohui Xiong, Jizhang Sang, Xiaogong Sun, Bao Zhang, Junyu Li

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Seasonal extreme temperatures and short-term fine particulate matter increases pediatric respiratory healthcare encounters in a sparsely populated region of the intermountain western United States by Erin L. Landguth, Jonathon Knudson, Jon Graham, Ava Orr, Emily A. Coyle, Paul Smith, Erin O. Semmens, Curtis Noonan

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Seismic Architecture of the Lithosphere-Asthenosphere System in the Western United States from a Joint Inversion of Body- and Surface-wave Observations: Distribution of Partial Melt in the Upper Mantle by Joseph Byrnes, James Gaherty, Emily Hopper

“…Application to the western United States clarifies where upper mantle discontinuities are lithosphere-asthenosphere boundaries (LAB) or mid-lithospheric discontinuities (MLD). …”
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A Spatial PWV Retrieval Model Over Land for GCOM-W&#x002F;AMSR2 Using Neural Network Method: A Case in the Western United States by Zhaorui Gao, Nan Jiang, Yan Xu, Tianhe Xu, Rubing Zeng, Ao Guo, Yuhao Wu

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Distribution, habitat associations, and conservation status updates for the pilose crayfish Pacifastacus gambelii (Girard, 1852) and Snake River pilose crayfish Pacifastacus connectens (Faxon, 1914) of the western United States by Rachel M. Egly, Eric R. Larson

“…Our study evaluates the distribution, habitat associations, and current conservation status of the Snake River pilose crayfish Pacifastacus connectens (Faxon, 1914) and pilose crayfish Pacifastacus gambelii (Girard, 1852), two little-studied and data-deficient species endemic to the western United States. We first developed a species distribution model (SDM) for the pilose crayfishes based on their historical occurrence records using boosted regression trees and freshwater GIS data layers. …”
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Corrigendum: Tree mortality from fires, bark beetles, and timber harvest during a hot and dry decade in the western United States (2003–2012) (2017 Environ. Res. Lett. 12 065005) by Logan T Berner, Beverly E Law, Arjan J H Meddens, Jeffrey A Hicke

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Effects of Climate Change on Natural-Caused Fire Activity in Western U.S. National Forests by Hadi Heidari, Mazdak Arabi, Travis Warziniack

“…Increasing natural-caused fires throughout western United States national forests could place people, property, and infrastructure at risk in the future. …”
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