Switching on the Big Burn of 2017
Abstract
:1. What Happened during the 2017 Wildfire Season?
2. The Ignition Switch: In 2017, People Started 89% of Wildfires in the U.S.
3. The Fuel Switch: An Extreme Wet Winter and Spring Produced Fine Fuels, Amidst a Historical Legacy of Large Fuels
4. The Aridity Switch: 2017 Had an Extremely Hot and Dry Summer and Fall
5. Anthropogenic Climate Change Likely Made the 2017 Wildfire Season Worse, but Natural Variability Played a Key Role
- Models tend to project a decrease in fall precipitation in California, which may be interpreted as promoting a 2017-like delayed onset of cold-season rains [22], but no clear fall trends have yet emerged in the observed record; and
- There has been no trend in the frequency or intensity of Santa Ana wind events in coastal California since records began in the mid-1900s [23].
6. U.S. Policy Opportunities to Build Better and Burn Better
7. How Do We Better Live in Increasingly Flammable Landscapes?
8. What to Expect in 2018: The Aridity Switch Is already on in Many Parts of the Western U.S.
Author Contributions
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Balch, J.K.; Schoennagel, T.; Williams, A.P.; Abatzoglou, J.T.; Cattau, M.E.; Mietkiewicz, N.P.; St. Denis, L.A. Switching on the Big Burn of 2017. Fire 2018, 1, 17. https://doi.org/10.3390/fire1010017
Balch JK, Schoennagel T, Williams AP, Abatzoglou JT, Cattau ME, Mietkiewicz NP, St. Denis LA. Switching on the Big Burn of 2017. Fire. 2018; 1(1):17. https://doi.org/10.3390/fire1010017
Chicago/Turabian StyleBalch, Jennifer K., Tania Schoennagel, A. Park Williams, John T. Abatzoglou, Megan E. Cattau, Nathan P. Mietkiewicz, and Lise A. St. Denis. 2018. "Switching on the Big Burn of 2017" Fire 1, no. 1: 17. https://doi.org/10.3390/fire1010017
APA StyleBalch, J. K., Schoennagel, T., Williams, A. P., Abatzoglou, J. T., Cattau, M. E., Mietkiewicz, N. P., & St. Denis, L. A. (2018). Switching on the Big Burn of 2017. Fire, 1(1), 17. https://doi.org/10.3390/fire1010017