Crystal Kolden et al. (incl. John Abatzoglou, Matt Jones) write on wildfires.

TL;DR: 384 Mha of land was burnt, and Canada experienced its most severe fire season of the modern era.

nature.com/articles/s4301…

New paper out with Climate Hazards Center in Scientific Data , accompanying our new high resolution, global dataset for monitoring and projecting heat-related extremes out to 2050. Open access link to paper and blog post 👇

.WA State Climate is hiring a State Climatologist! If you have expertise in meteorology, climatology, or a similar field & you want to lead the Office in achieving their strategic vision, apply today! cig.uw.edu/2024/01/now-hi…

We're seeking a Postdoctoral Scholar with a passion for researching compound coastal flood risk assessment. Explore more details here:

recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF08823

RT would be much appreciated.

My warm & friendly academic home department UCI ESS UCI Physical Sciences UC Irvine is searching for a new atmospheric science assistant professor. We'll start reviewing applications in the coming weeks and it's not too late to apply. Please spread the word. recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF08736

Come work at Utah State! Assistant Professor of Critical Zone Geosciences. I'd love a snow/glaciers/hydrology collaborator on campus... Deadline = Oct. 15
careers-usu.icims.com/jobs/6893/assi…

Our prescribed fire and #ClimateChange paper was published today in Communications Earth & Environment, and is directly available via full open access! Full Twitter thread to follow later today. #CAfire #CAwater nature.com/articles/s4324…

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In other news ...
Check out our NEW PAPER published in GCB, titled 'Refuge-yeah or refuge-nah? Predicting locations of forest resistance and recruitment in a fiery world'. Lead author = The Amazing Kyle Rodman!

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

Timley new paper on Abrupt, climate-induced increase in wildfires in British Columbia since the mid-2000s as BC area burned record set in 2018 is smashed by 2023 nature.com/articles/s4324…

Editor's highlight on our recent GRL publication on environmental conditions associated with #lightning caused wildfires in the western US. Thank you AGU's Eos and Guiling Wang. Nick Nauslar John Abatzoglou

eos.org/editor-highlig…

Thank you to @DroughtGov for featuring a new study from WCHP's Dr. Yeongjin Gwon and Jesse E. Bell that found regional and demographic increases in #respiratorymortality during #drought .

Check out the article here ➡️
drought.gov/news/study-fin… UNMC College of Public Health

Pls RT: The Aerosol-Climate group at UC-Merced is looking for a postdoctoral scholar to work on a DOE project that uses observations and model simulations to understand the interactions between dust aerosols, clouds, and precipitation. Click aprecruit.ucmerced.edu/JPF01607 for more info

In light of the #MauiFires , here is my The Conversation U.S. story on why uncharacteristic fires are not so much uncharacteristic anymore: theconversation.com/maui-wildfires…
Boise State University Boise State UniversityCOEN #wildfire #ClimateEmergency #Hawaii

After several collaborative writing sessions and a slew of panel presentations, we decided to take a break at #AWRA2023 and head to a Rockies game yesterday.

Please consider our AGU (American Geophysical Union) session (A064)! Stefan Rahimi, Dr. Manuela Girotto, John Abatzoglou, Melissa Bukovsky, & Alan Rhoades hope to discuss the developmental & analytical challenges when generating/applying climate data. Details👇agu.confex.com/agu/fm23/preli…

Led by @modaresi_rad, our study in NatureSustainability shows that human exposure to #wildfires more than doubled from 2000-2019 in the Contiguous United States.

Road and powerline exposure also increased markedly (58% and 70%)

nature.com/articles/s4189…
#ClimateAction

The 2023 Canadian fire season is like no-other in the satellite record (2000-pres). Here are the accumulated fire-radiative power (FRP) curves, with 2023 (magenta) in a league of its own. Note that smoke production is proportional to FRP. (data= MODIS, results= prelim) #pyrocene

Paper on Downslope Wind-Driven (DWD) fires by John Abatzoglou et al in Earth's Future, AGU (American Geophysical Union) :
Small portion of fires (13%) and burned area (12%) in the western US during 1992–2020, but very large impacts: >52% of human mortality & >60% of structure loss!
doi.org/10.1029/2022EF…

🚨 Publication Alert 🚨

As summer heats up, Justin Huntington and team assess skill of new downscaled subseasonal #wildfire danger forecasts using CFSv2 and gridMET for CONUS. 🗞️

Skill remains relatively high for energy release component (ERC) 4 weeks out.

rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/as…

Remarkable lack of warm days so far in 2023 in coastal SoCal. Los Angeles has had only 4 days of 80+ temperatures, fewest for the calendar year to date since 1919.