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Observed Impacts of Anthropogenic Climate Change on Wildfire in California

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Type
Literature
Publication
A. Park Williams John T. Abatzoglou Alexander Gershunov Janin Guzman‐Morales Daniel A. Bishop Jennifer K. Balch Dennis P. Lettenmaier. July 2019. "Observed Impacts of Anthropogenic Climate Change on Wildfire in California". https://doi.org/10.1029/2019EF001210
Year Published
2019
Organization
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Description

"Recent fire seasons have fueled intense speculation regarding the effect of anthropogenic climate change on wildfire in western North America and especially in California. During 1972–2018, California experienced a fivefold increase in annual burned area, mainly due to more than an eightfold increase in summer forest‐fire extent. Increased summer forest‐fire area very likely occurred due to increased atmospheric aridity caused by warming."

Geography
California
Website
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2019EF001210

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