Potential climate change impacts on fire weather in the United States

Warren E. E. Heilman; Ying Tang; Lifeng Luo; Shiyuan Zhong; Julie Winkler; Randy Bian

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Potential climate change impacts on fire weather in the United States

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Authors:

Warren E. E. Heilman, Ying Tang, Lifeng Luo, Shiyuan Zhong, Julie Winkler, Randy Bian

Year:

2015

Type:

Scientific Journal

Station:

Northern Research Station

Source:

Fire Management Today. 74(3): 22-27.

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Abstract

Researchers at Michigan State University and the Forest Service's Northern Research Station worked on a joint study to examine the possible effects of future global and regional climate change on the occurrence of fire-weather patterns often associated with extreme and erratic wildfire behavior in the United States.

Citation

Heilman, Warren E.; Tang, Ying; Luo, Lifeng; Zhong, Shiyuan; Winkler, Julie; Bian, Xindi. 2015. Potential climate change impacts on fire weather in the United States. Fire Management Today. 74(3): 22-27.