DRI / DIRECTORY / TIM BROWN
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Dr. Tim Brown
Research Professor, Climatology and Director of Western Regional Climate Center
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775-674-7090
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Tim.Brown@dri.edu
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Reno Campus
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Atmospheric Sciences

Professional Interests

Dr. Tim Brown is a Research Professor and conducts applied research and applications development at the Desert Research Institute (DRI) in Reno, Nevada. His primary academic interests include wildland fire-climate and fire-weather connections; the wildfire environment; applications development for wildland fire management planning, decision-making and policy; the interface between science and decision-making; and user engagement through the deliberate co-production of knowledge. Dr. Brown is Director of the Western Regional Climate Center, and established and directs the Program for Climate, Ecosystem and Fire Applications (CEFA) at DRI. He is graduate faculty in the Atmospheric Sciences Program at the University of Nevada, Reno, and quandom Adjunct at the Monash University School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, Science Faculty in Clayton, Victoria, Australia.

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Education

Degree Year Institution Area
Ph.D. 1995 University of Colorado, Boulder, CO Climatology
M.A. 1988 University of Colorado, Boulder, CO Climatology
B.A. 1982 University of Illinois (Sangamon State campus), Springfield, IL Astronomy

Professional Experience

Dates Experience
2010-present Research Professor, Division of Atmospheric Sciences, Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV
2008-present Director, Western Regional Climate Center (WRCC); Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV
2014-2016 Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, School of Geography and Environmental Science,
Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
1998-present Director, Program for Climate, Ecosystem and Fire Applications;
Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV
2003-2010 Associate Research Professor, Division of Atmospheric Sciences,
2000-2003 Assistant Research Professor, Division of Atmospheric Sciences,
Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV
1996-1999 Research Associate, Division of Atmospheric Sciences,
Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV
1995-1996 UCAR Visiting Scientist, ASC/WRCC, Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV
1992-1995 Graduate Research Assistant, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental
Sciences and Department of Geography; University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, and
the NOAA Climate Diagnostics Center, Boulder, CO
1983-1992 Professional Research Assistant, Cooperative Institute for Research in
Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO.
1990-1993 Consultant, Space Environment Laboratory, Boulder, CO
1988-1989 Contractor, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO
1985-1987 Consultant, Institute for Behavioral Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
1982-1989 Consultant, Flueck Associates, Boulder, CO
1980-1982 Student Lab Assistant, Sangamon State University, Springfield, IL
1973-1980 Research Assistant, Illinois State Water Survey, Champaign-Urbana, IL

Professional Memberships

  • American Meteorological Society
  • American Geophysical Union
  • International Association of Wildland Fire
  • Association of Fire Ecology

Academic Teaching and Advisement

Academic courses taught
– Data Analysis in Atmospheric Sciences, Physical Climatology, Synoptic Meteorology, Introduction to Physical Geography, Astronomy

Academic advising and committees
– Served on28 Ph.D./Masters committees

Current and past lecturer
– National Advanced Fire Danger Rating System Course at the U.S. Forest Service

– National Advanced Fire and Resource Institute

– Advanced Fire Behavior Course at the U.S. Forest Service National Advanced Fire and Resource Institute

– University of Sassari, Sardinia, Italy, Department of Science of Nature and Environmental Resources (University Master course: Wildfire Planning, Prevention and Fighting in Mediterranean Areas Fire Behavior)

Associate Member
– National Wildfire Coordinating Group Fire Environment Committee

Associate Editor
– International Journal of Wildland Fire

National Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada

– Chair, Canadian Forest Service Wildland Fire Research Network Review Panel

California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection

– Technical Advisor, Fire Hazard Severity Zones mapping

Southern California Edison

– Member, Public Safety Power Shutoff Advisory Board

Keywords

Wildland fire, fire weather, fire climate, climate, climate change, applied statistics, data analysis, data visualization, co-production of knowledge

 

Publications
2024
Keeley, J., Flannigan, M., Brown, T. J., Rolinski, T., Cayan, D., Syphard, A., Guzman-Morales, J., Gershunov, A. (2024). Climate and weather drivers in southern California Santa Ana Wind and non-Santa Wind fires, International Journal of Wildland Fire, 33 (8)

Umphlett, N. A., Brown, T. J., Konrad, C. E., Wall, T. U., Hall, B. L., DeGaetano, A., Niesen-Gammon, J. W., Mahmood, R., Houston, T. G. (2024). The Regional Climate Center Program – Past, Present, and Future: Reflections from 40 Years of Regional Climate Services, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 105 (10), E1849–E1860, 10.1175/BAMS-D-23-0155.1

2023
Jakober, S., Brown, T. J., Wall, T. U. (2023). Development of a Decision Matrix for National Weather Service Red Flag Warnings, Fire, 6, Article No. 168, 10.3390/fire6040168

MacDonald, G., Wall, T. U., Enquist, C. A., LeRoy, S. R., Bradford, J. B., Breshears, D. D., Brown, T. J., Cayan, D., Dong, C., Falk, D. A., Fleishman, E., Gershunov, A., Hunter, M., Loehman, R. A., van Mantgem, P. J., Middleton, B. R., Safford, H. D., Schwartz, M. W., Trouet, V. (2023). Drivers of California’s changing wildfires: a state-of-the-knowledge synthesis, International Journal of Wildland Fire, 10.1071/WF22155

Brown, T. J., Reinbold, H. J., McCurdy, G. D. (2023). RAWS QC and gap fill description for Version 1, Project report. December 2023.

Brown, T. J., Mims, D., Striplin, R. (2023). CANSAC Annual Report 2022, 15 pp., September 2023.

Brown, T. J., Podnar, D., McCurdy, G. D., Hosseinpour, F. E., Callahan, J. S. (2023). National FCAMMS 2, 7 pp., USFS Annual Performance Report, March 2023.

Brown, T. J., Reinbold, H. J., Fearon, M. G. (2023). Weather Data Analysis, 8 pp., USFS Annual Performance Report, March 2023.

Brown, T. J. (2023). Fire Extremes III, 2 pp., Annual Performance Report, March 2023.

Andrade, A. J., McEvoy, D. J., Brown, T. J. (2023). Utility of Atmospheric Evaporative Demand in Assessing Wildland Fire Potential, White paper for NIDIS, February 2023.

Hosseinpour, F. E., Brown, T. J. (2023). Gridded Wind Climatology Project – Gridded hourly wind climatology products from 1985 to 2022 over CONUS, Delivered to High Plains Regional Climate Center (HPRCC)/ University of Nebraska-Lincoln, https://hprcc.unl.edu/windclim/

Hosseinpour, F. E., Brown, T. J. (2023). Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) Project- Extending Humidity and Vegetation Condition Datasets Back in Time to Support Climate-scale Wildfire Prediction, Delivered to NOAA

2022
Boisramé, G., Brown, T. J., Bachelet, D. (2022). Trends in Western US Fire Fuels Using Historical Data and Modeling, Fire Ecology, 18 (8), June 10, 2022, 10.1186/s42408-022-00129-4

Mills, G., Salkin, O., Fearon, M. G., Harris, S., Brown, T. J., Reinbold, H. J. (2022). , Journal of Southern Hemisphere Earth Systems Science, 72 (2), 139-163, https://doi.org/10.1071/ES22011
https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/ES22011

Jaffe, D. A., Peterson, D. L., McCaffrey, S. M., Hall, J., Brown, T. J. (2022). Assessing the State of Smoke Science, In Wildland Fire Smoke in the United States: A Scientific Assessment, Springer Nature Switzerland AG: Cham, Switzerland

Liu, Y., Heilman, W. E., Potter, B. E., Clements, C. B., Jackson, W. A., French, N. H., Goodrick, S. L., Kochanski, A. K., Larkin, N. K., Lahm, P., Brown, T. J., Schwarz, J. P., Strachan, S. M., Zhao, F., Peterson, D. L., McCaffrey, S. M. (2022). Smoke Plume Dynamics, In Wildland Fire Smoke in the United States: A Scientific Assessment, Springer Nature Switzerland AG: Cham, Switzerland

Peterson, J., Pitrolo, M. C., Schweizer, D. W., Striplin, R. L., Geiser, L. H., Holm, S. M., Hunter, J. D., Croft, J. M., Chappell, L. M., Lahm, P. W., Amezquita, G. E., Brown, T. J., Cisneros, R. G., Connolly, S. J., Halofsky, J. E., Loudermilk, E. L., Navarro, K. M., Nick, A. L., Procter, T. T., Provencio, H. C., Pusina, T., Stone, S. L., Tarnay, L. W., West, C. D., Peterson, D. L., McCaffrey, S. M. (2022). Smoke Plume Dynamics, In Wildland Fire Smoke in the United States: A Scientific Assessment, Springer Nature Switzerland AG: Cham, Switzerland

Hosseinpour, F. E., Brown, T. J. (2022). Development of hourly and 6-hourly multi-level smoke concentration and visibility rating with 18- and 48-hour forecast lead time for Western US region in png, kmz, and geotiff formats calculated based on NOAA-HRRR data (available in fire seasons), https://cansac.dri.edu/HRRR.php

Hosseinpour, F. E., Brown, T. J. (2022). Development of the hourly dispersion variables, including mixing height, transport wind, turner stability, dispersion index, and low visibility index with 384- and 72-hour forecast lead time for contiguous U.S. region in png format calculated based on GFS and NAM data (available during fire seasons), https://met.wildlandfiresmoke.net/smoke/

Hosseinpour, F. E., Brown, T. J. (2022). Development of the hourly meteorological variables including min/max temperature, min/max relative humidity, accumulated precipitation with 384-hour forecast lead time for contiguous US region in geotiff format calculated based on GFS data. Data delivered to USFS.

Hosseinpour, F. E., Zare Harofteh, A., Brown, T. J., Kumar, N., Huang, S., Kramer, S. (2022). Development of Smoke Transport Probability and Risk Interactive Map from Trajectories and Climatology Analysis of 2-km CANSAC-Reanalysis Database, report to Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE), 8 pp

2021
Keeley, J. E., Guzman-Morales, J., Gershunov, A., Syphard, A. D., Cayan, D., Pierce, D. W., Flannigan, M., Brown, T. J. (2021). Ignitions explain more than temperature or precipitation in driving Santa Ana wind fires, Science Advances, 7, Article No. eabh2262

Clark, S., Mills, G., Brown, T. J., Harris, S., Abatzoglou, J. T. (2021). Downscaled GCM climate projections of fire weather over Victoria, Australia. Part 1: Evaluation of the MACA technique, International Journal of Wildland Fire, 10.1071/WF20174

Clark, S., Mills, G., Brown, T. J., Harris, S., Abatzoglou, J. T. (2021). Downscaled GCM climate projections of fire weather over Victoria, Australia. Part 2: A multi-model ensemble of 21st century trends, International Journal of Wildland Fire, 10.1071/WF20175

2020
Mills, G., Harris, S., Brown, T. J., Chen, L.-W.A. (2020). Climatology of wind changes and elevated fire danger over Victoria, Australia, Journal Southern Hemisphere Earth Systems Science, 10.1071/ES19043

Brown, T. J., McCurdy, G. D. (2020). RAWS Data Archive. Final Performance Report, 6 pp., August 2020

Brown, T. J. (2020). NFDRS 2016. Final Performance Report, 2 pp., April 2020.

Brown, T. J., Kochanski, A. (2020). Inversion WRF. Final Performance Report, 6 pp., August 2020.

Brown, T. J., Fearon, M. G. (2020). Inversion Forecast Procedure. Final Performance Report, 6 pp., August 2020.

Brown, T. J., Wall, T. U. (2020). Fire Extremes II. Final Performance Report, 10 pp., August 2020.

Brown, T. J., Podnar, D., McCurdy, G. D. (2020). National FCAMMS. Final Performance Report, 6 pp., August 2020.

Brown, T. J., Reinbold, H. J. (2020). Continuous RAWS. Final Performance Report, 4 pp., August 2020.

Brown, T. J., Podnar, D. (2020). CANSAC Annual Report 2019. Report for the California and Nevada Smoke and Air Committee, 16 pp., May 2020.

Brown, T. J., Fearon, M. G. (2020). Superfog. Annual Performance Report, 4 pp., April 2020.

Brown, T. J., Reinbold, H. J. (2020). Continuous RAWS. Annual Performance Report, 2 pp., April 2020.

Brown, T. J., Podnar, D., McCurdy, G. D. (2020). National FCAMMS. Annual Performance Report, 3 pp., April 2020.

Brown, T. J., Wall, T. U. (2020). Fire Extremes II. Annual Performance Report, 4 pp., April 2020.

Brown, T. J., Fearon, M. G. (2020). Inversion Forecast Procedure. Annual Performance Report, 2 pp., April 2020.

Brown, T. J., Kochanski, A. (2020). Inversion WRF. Annual Performance Report, 4 pp., April 2020.

Brown, T. J. (2020). NFDRS 2016. Annual Performance Report, 2 pp., April 2020.

Brown, T. J., McCurdy, G. D. (2020). RAWS Data Archive. Annual Performance Report, 3 pp., April 2020.

Brown, T. J., Leach, S., Wachter, B., Gardunio, B. (2020). The Northern California 2018 Wildfire Season, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 101 (1), S1-S4, Special supplement.10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0275.1

2019
Prichard, S. J., Larkin, N. S., Ottmar, R. D., French, N. H., Brown, T. J., Baker, K., Clements, C., Dickinson, M., Hudak, A., Kochanski, A., Linn, R., Liu, Y., Potter, B., Mell, W. E., Tanzer, D., Urbanski, S., Watts, A. C. (2019). The Fire and Smoke Model Evaluation Experiment: A plan for integrated, large fire-atmosphere field campaigns, Atmosphere, 10 (2), 66, https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos10020066

McEvoy, D. J., Hobbins, M., Brown, T. J., VanderMolen, K.A., Wall, T. U., Huntington, J. L., Svoboda, M. (2019). Establishing Relationships between Drought Indices and Wildfire Danger Outputs: A Test Case for the California-Nevada Drought Early Warning System, Climate, 7 (4), 52, https://doi.org/10.3390/cli7040052

Nauslar, N., Brown, T. J., McEvoy, D. J., Lareau, N. (2019). Record Setting 2018 California Wildfires [in “State of the Climate in 2018”], Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 100 (9), S195-S196, doi:10.1175/2019BAMSStateoftheClimate.1

Liu, Y., Kochanski, A., Baker, K. R., Mell, W., Linn, R., Paugam, R., Mandel, J., Fournier, A., Jenkins, M. A., Goodrick, S., Achtemeier, G., Zhao, F., Ottmar, R., French, N. H., Larkin, N., Brown, T. J., Hudak, A., Dickinson, M., Potter, B., Clements, C., Urbanski, S., Prichard, S., Watts, A. C., McNamara, D. (2019). Fire behaviour and smoke modelling: Model improvement and measurement needs for next-generation smoke research and forecasting systems, International Journal of Wildland Fire, 28, 570-588, 10.1071/WF18204

Kochanski, A. K., Mallia, D. V., Fearon, M. G., Mandel, J., Souri, A. H., Brown, T. J. (2019). Modeling wildfire smoke feedback mechanisms using a coupled fire‐atmosphere model with a radiatively active aerosol scheme, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 124 (16), 9099-9116, 10.1029/2019JD030558

2018
Nauslar, N. J., Hatchett, B. J., Brown, T. J., Kaplan, M. L., Mejia, J. F. (2018). Impact of the North American Monsoon on wildfire activity in the southwest United States, International Journal of Climatology, 10.1002/joc.5899

Mills, G., Brown, T. J., Podnar, D., Reinbold, H. J., Harris, S. (2018). Victorian Gridded Fire Weather Climatology Data Set Rainfall Verification and Configuration Test Project, 37 pp., Final Report to the Victorian Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, August 2018.

Brown, T. J., Wall, T. U. (2018). The National Integrated Drought Information System Drought and Wildland Fire Nexus (NDAWN) Strategic Plan: 2018–2022, 12 pp., Prepared for NIDIS, September 2018.

Brown, T. J., Podnar, D., McCurdy, G. D. (2018). National FCAMMS. Annual Performance Report, 5 pp., April 2018.

Brown, T. J. (2018). NFDRS 2016. Annual Performance Report, 2 pp., April 2018.

Brown, T. J., McCurdy, G. D. (2018). RAWS Data Archive. Annual Performance Report, 3 pp., April 2018.

Brown, T. J., Nauslar, N. J. (2018). Haines Index. Annual Performance Report, 4 pp., April 2018.

Brown, T. J., Kochanski, A. (2018). Inversion WRF. Annual Performance Report, 4 pp., April 2018.

Brown, T. J., Fearon, M. G. (2018). Inversion Forecast Procedure. Annual Performance Report, 2 pp., April 2018.

Brown, T. J., Reinbold, H. J. (2018). Grand Canyon Smoke. Annual Performance Report, 5 pp., April 2018.

Brown, T. J., Wall, T. U., Nauslar, N. J. (2018). Fire Extremes II. Annual Performance Report, 4 pp., April 2018.

Brown, T. J., Fearon, M. G. (2018). Superfog. Annual Performance Report, 2 pp., April 2018.

Brown, T. J., Reinbold, H. J. (2018). RMACC Forecast Products. Final Performance Report, 3 pp., March 2018.

McEvoy, D. J., Brown, T. J., Wall, T. U., Hobbins, M., Huntington, J. L., Svoboda, M. (2018). Developing a Wildfire Component for the NIDIS California Drought Early Warning System. Annual Progress Report, NOAA SARP, 9 pp., April 2018.

Wall, T. U., Garfin, G., Brugger, J., Hartmann, H., Brown, T. J. (2018). Final Report: Scenario Planning in the Great Basin Region: Considering Climate Change Impacts and Management Strategies for the Future

2017
White, C. J., Carlsen, H., Robertson, A. W., Klein, R. J., Lazo, J. K., Kumar, A., Vitart, F., de Perez, E. C., Ray, A. J., Murray, V., Bharwani, S., MacLeod, D., James, R., Fleming, L., Morse, A. P., Eggen, B., Graham, R., Kjellström, E., Becker, E., Pegion, K. V., Holbrook, N. J., McEvoy, D., Depledge, M., Perkins-Kirkpatrick, S., Brown, T. J., Street, R., Jones, L., Remenyi, T. A., Hodgson-Johnston, I., Buontempo, C., Lamb, R., Meinke, H., Arheimer, B., Zebiak, S. E. (2017). Potential applications of subseasonal-to-seasonal (S2S) predictions, Meteorological Applications, 24, 315-325, 10.1002/met.1654

Harris, S., Mills, G., Brown, T. J. (2017). Variability and drivers of extreme fire weather in fire-prone areas of south-eastern Australia, Int. J. Wildland Fire, 26 (3), 177-190, 10.1071/WF16118

Muth, M., Anderson, K., Brown, D., Brown, T. J., Delgado, E., Garfin, G., Hadwen, T., Murphy, V., Ramirez, R. P., Pugh, B., Gutierrez, J., Heim, R., Rippey, B., Svoboda, M. (2017). Advancing preparedness and response to drought and wildfires through North American transboundary collaboration, Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., ES57-60 (March 2017), 10.1175/BAMS-D-16-0296.1

Wall, T. U., Brown, T. J., Nauslar, N. J. (2017). Spot Weather Forecasts: Improving Utilization, Communication, and Perceptions of Accuracy in Sophisticated User Groups, Weather, Climate and Society, 9, 215-226, 10.1175/WCAS-D-15-0055.1

Brown, T. J. (2017). National FCAMMS. Annual Performance Report, Submitted, 5 pp., April 2017.

Brown, T. J., McCurdy, G. D. (2017). RAWS Data Archive. Annual Performance Report, Submitted, 3 pp., April 2017.

Brown, T. J., Nauslar, N. J. (2017). Haines Index. Annual Performance Report, Submitted, 4 pp., April 2017.

Brown, T. J., Kochanski, A. (2017). Inversion WRF. Annual Performance Report, Submitted, 4 pp., April 2017.

Brown, T. J., Fearon, M. G. (2017). Inversion Forecast Procedure. Annual Performance Report, Submitted, 2 pp., April 2017.

Brown, T. J., Reinbold, H. J. (2017). Grand Canyon Smoke. Annual Performance Report, Submitted, 3 pp., April 2017.

Brown, T. J., Wall, T. U., Nauslar, N. J. (2017). Fire Extremes II. Annual Performance Report, Submitted, 3 pp., April 2017.

Brown, T. J., Reinbold, H. J. (2017). RMACC Forecast Products. Annual Performance Report, Submitted, 3 pp., April 2017.

Brown, T. J., McEvoy, D. J., Wall, T. U., Hobbins, M., Huntington, J. L., Svoboda, M. (2017). Developing a Wildfire Component for the NIDIS California Drought Early Warning System. Annual Progress Report, NOAA SARP, Submitted, 10 pp., April 2017.

Wall, T. U., Brown, T. J., Nauslar, N. J. (2017). Fire Stories – Understanding Wildland Firefighters’ Perceptions of Unpredictable and Extreme Fire Behavior. Final Report for U.S. Forest Service Research, Development and Applications Program, Submitted, 28 pp., December 2017.

Nauslar, N. J., Brown, T. J., Kaplan, M. L., Mejia, J. F., Hatchett, B. J. (2017). Examining the North American Monsoon’s impact on wildfire activity in the southwest United States, International Journal of Climatology

2016
Parris, A. S., Garfin, G. M., Dow, K., Meyer, R., Close, S. L. (Eds.) Garfin, G., Brown, T. J., Wordell, T., Delgado, E. (2016). The Making of National Seasonal Wildfire OutlooksThe Making of National Seasonal Wildfire Outlooks, In Climate in Context: Science and Society Partnering for Adaptation, 143-171, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.: Chichester, UK, 10.1002/9781118474785.ch7

Nauslar, N. J., Brown, T. J., Horel, J. D. (2016). Verification of National Weather Service Spot Forecasts Using Atmospheric Sounding Observations, J. Operational Meteor., 4 (4), 46-57, 10.15191/nwajom.2016.0404

White, C. J., Brown, T. J. (2016). Applications of subseasonal-to-seasonal (S2S) predictions, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Muth, M., Anderson, K., Brown, D., Brown, T. J., Delgado, E., Garfin, G., Hadwen, T., Murphy, V., Ramirez, R. P., Pugh, B., Gutierrez, J., Heim, R., Rippey, B., Svoboda, M. (2016). Advancing preparedness and response to drought and wildfires through North American transboundary collaboration, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 10.1175/BAMS-D-16-0296.1

Brown, T. J., Mills, G., Harris, S., Podnar, D., Reinbold, H. J., Fearon, M. G. (2016). A bias corrected WRF mesoscale fire weather dataset for Victoria, Australia 1972-2012, Journal of Southern Hemisphere Earth Systems Science, 66 (3), 281-313
://WOS:000389054200004

Westerling, A. L., Brown, T. J., Schoennagel, T., Swetnam, T. W., Turner, M. G., Veblen, T. T. (2016). Climate and Wildfire in U.S. Western ForestsChapter : . In Sample, V. A., Bixler, R. P., Miller, C. (Eds.), Forest Conservation in the Anthropocene, 43-56. University Press of Colorado: Boulder, CO

Brown, T. J., Mills, G., Harris, S., Podnar, D., Reinbold, H. J., Fearon, M. G. (2016). Fire Weather Climatology Dataset for Victoria – Supplemental Report for Dataset Version 2, 25 pp., Supplemental Report to the Victoria Department of Environment, Water, Land and Planning, June 2016.

Sapsis, D., Brown, T. J., Low, C., Moritz, M., Saah, D., Shaby, B. (2016). Mapping Environmental Influences on Utility Fire Threat, 55 pp., Final report to the California Public Utilities Commission Pursuant to R.08 – 11-005 and R.15-05-006.

Brown, T. J., McCurdy, G. D. (2016). RAWS Data Archive. Annual Performance Report, 3 pp, February 2016

Brown, T. J., McCurdy, G. D. (2016). RAWS Data Archive. Final Performance Report, 3 pp., April 2016

Brown, T. J. (2016). National FCAMMS. Annual Performance Report, 5 pp., April 2016

Brown, T. J. (2016). National FCAMMS. Final Performance Report, 5 pp., April 2016

Brown, T. J., Wall, T. U. (2016). Fire Extremes. Final Performance Report, 32 pp., April 2016

Brown, T. J., Wall, T. U. (2016). Fire Extremes. Annual Performance Report, 2 pp., April 2016

Brown, T. J., Simeral, D. B., McEvoy, D. J., Morton, C. G., Redmond, K. T., McCurdy, G. D. (2016). An Assessment of Climate Monitoring for Land Management Applications in the Great Basin, 1-58, Great Basin Landscape Conservation Cooperative: Reno, NV, CESU Project L13AC00262

2015
Fearon, M. G., Brown, T. J., Curcio, G. M. (2015). Establishing a national standard for operational mixing height determination, J. Operational Meteor., 3 (15), 172-189

Jolly, M. W., Cochrane, M. A., Freeborn, P. H., Holden, Z. A., Brown, T. J., Williamson, G. J., Bowman, D. (2015). Climate-induced variations in global wildfire danger from 1979 to 2013, Nature Comm., 6 (7537), 10.1038/ncomms8537

Barbero, R., Abatzoglou, J. T., Brown, T. J. (2015). Seasonal reversal of the influence of El Nino-Southern Oscillation on very large wildfire occurrence in the interior northwestern United States, Geophysical Research Letters, 42 (9), 3538-3545, 10.1002/2015gl063428
://WOS:000355878300059

Wall, T. U., Brown, T. J., Nauslar, N. J. (2015). Improving Utilization, Communication, and Perceptions of Accuracy in Sophisticated User Groups, Weather, Climate, and Society

Wall, T. U., Garfin, G., Brugger, J., Hartmann, H., Brown, T. J. (2015). Scenario Planning in the Great Basin Region: Considering Climate Change Impacts and Management Strategies for the Future, Final Report, 23 p.. Desert Research Institute

Brown, T. J. (2015). National FCAMMS. Annual Performance Report, April 2015, 6 pp.

Brown, T. J., McCurdy, G. D. (2015). RAWS Data Archive. Annual Performance Report, April 2015, 3 pp.

Brown, T. J., Wall, T. U. (2015). Fire Extremes. Annual Performance Report, April 2015, 3 pp.

Brown, T. J., Mills, G., Harris, S., Podnar, D., Reinbold, H. J., Fearon, M. G. (2015). Fire Weather Climatolology Dataset for Victoria. Final Project Report to the Victoria Department of Environment, Land and Water Planning: August 2015, 134 pp.

2013
Prahm, N., Longo, B., Baxter, K., Brown, T. J. (2013). Lightning Does Strike Twice: A Fulminology Primer for Nurse Practitioners., J. Nurse Practitioners, 9, 479-486

Brown, H. E., Comrie, A. C., Drechsler, D. M., Barker, C. M., Basu, R., Brown, T. J., Gershunov, A., Kilpatrick, A. M., Reisen, W. K., Ruddell, D. M. (2013). Chapter 15, Human HealthChapter : . In Garfin, G., Jardine, A., Merideth, R., Black, M., LeRoy, S. (Eds.), Assessment of Climate Change in the Southwest United States: A Report Prepared for the National Climate Assessment, A report by the Southwest Climate Alliance, 312-339. edited by G. Garfin, J. Jardine, R. Merideth, M. Black, and S. LeRoy: Washington, DC: Island Press

Nauslar, N. J., Kaplan, M. L., Wallmann, J., Brown, T. J. (2013). A forecast procedure for dry thunderstorms, J. Operational Meteor., 1 (17), 200-214

2012
Abatzoglou, J. T., Brown, T. J. (2012). A comparison of statistical downscaling methods suited for wildfire applications, Int. J. Climatol., 32 (5), 772-780, 10.1002/joc.2312

Owen, G., McLeod, J. C., Kolden, C. A., Ferguson, D. B., Brown, T. J. (2012). Wildfire management and forecasting fire potential: The roles of climate information and social networks in the southwest United States, Wea. Climate Soc., 42 (2), 90-102

2010
Miller, C., Abatzoglou, J. T., Brown, T. J., Shyphard, A. (2010). Chapter 10, Wilderness FireChapter 10: Wilderness Fire. In , Management in a Changing Environment. The Landscape Ecology of Fire. Springer

Hoang, R. V., Sgambati, M., Brown, T. J., Coming, D. S., Harris, F. C. (2010). VFire: Immersive Wildfire Simulation and Visualization, Computers and Graphics, 34 (6), 655-664

DeGaetano, A. T., Brown, T. J., Hilberg, S. D., Redmond, K. T., Robbins, K., Robinson, P., Shulski, M., McGuirk, M. (2010). Toward Regional Climate Services: The Role of NOAA’s Regional Climate Centers, Bull Amer Meteor Soc, 91 (12), 1633-1644, doi:10.1175/2010BAMS2936.1

2009
Abatzoglou, J. T., Brown, T. J. (2009). Influence of the Madden-Julian Oscillation on Summertime Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Activity over the Continental United States, Mon Wea Rev, 137, 3596-3601

2005
Reinbold, H. J., Roads, J. O., Brown, T. J. (2005). Evaluation of ECPC’s fire danger forecasts with RAWS observations, Int’l J Wildland Fire, 14, 19-36

Engelbrecht, J. P., Gertler, A. W., Brown, T. J. (2005). Fort Ord Review of and Comments on Air Quality Documentation, Report prepared for Denise Duffy and Associates, 21 pp. Monterey, CA, May 2005.

Engelbrecht, J. P., Brown, T. J., Gertler, A. W. (2005). Fort Ord Review of and Comments on Air Quality Documentation, Report prepared for Denise Duffy and Associates, 20 pp., June, 2005.

2002
Mitchell, D. L., Ivanova, D., Rabin, R., Brown, T. J., Redmond, K. T. (2002). Gulf of California Sea Surface Temperatures and the North American Monsoon: Mechanistic Implications from Observations, J. Climate, 15 (17), 2261-2281

1999
Brown, T. J., Berliner, L. M., Wilks, D. S., Richman, M. B., Wikle, C. K. (1999). Statistics education in the atmospheric sciences, Bulletin Amer. Meteorol. Soc., 10, 2087-2097

Brown, T. J., Hall, B. L. (1999). The use of t values in climatological composite analyses, J. Climate, 12, 2941-2944

Conference Proceedings
2024
Huang, S., Kramer, S., Hosseinpour, F. E., Zare Harofteh, A., Besong-Cowan, K., Scarborough, C., Brown, T. J., Kumar, N. (2024). Smoke Transport and Fire Weather Climatology Dashboard for California. The 104th AMS Annual Meeting: Baltimore, Maryland, January 28, 2024-February 1, 2024

Zare Harofteh, A., Huang, S., Kramer, S., Hosseinpour, F. E., Besong, K., Scarborough, C., Kumar, N., Brown, T. J. (2024). SmokePath Explorer: A Decision-Support Tool for Prescribed Fire Planning and Wildfire Response. 23rd Annual CMAS Conference 2023: Chapel Hill, NC, October 21, 2024-October 24, 2024

2023
Chambers, J. M., Landis, A., Walker, T. J., Ott, T., Morton, C. G., McEvoy, D. J., Brown, T. J., Huntington, J. L. (2023). A Distributed Approach toward Developing Interactive and Scalable Maps for Climate Data-Driven Web Applications at the Western Regional Climate Center. AMS Annual Meeting: Denver, CO, January 8, 2023-January 12, 2023

Hosseinpour, F. E., Brown, T. J., Larki, S., Lahm, P. (2023). Assessment of seasonal Fire Emissions and predictions in California and Nevada. 103rd American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting: Denver, CO, January 11, 2023, (Talk)

Brown, T. J., Eggleston, K. (2023). Perspectives on 40 years of the Regional Climate Center Program: A fireside chat with Keith Eggleston. American Association of State Climatologists Annual Meeting: Nashville, TN, June 21, 2023-June 23, 2023

Brown, T. J., Reinbold, H. J., McCurdy, G. D. (2023). QC’ing and making a complete Remote Automatic Weather Station dataset. American Association of State Climatologists Annual Meeting: Nashville, TN, June 21, 2023-June 23, 2023

Brown, T. J. (2023). Wildfire: The confluence of climate, fuels, and people. Reinsurance Association of America: [virtual], May 23, 2023, Invited virtual webinar.

Brown, T. J., Wall, T. U., Jakober, S. (2023). Making science usable for fire weather warnings. 8th International Wildland Fire Conference: Porto, Portugal, May 16, 2023-May 19, 2023

Brown, T. J., Reinbold, H. J., McCurdy, G. D. (2023). Using ERA5-land in the RAWS QC and estimation process. American Meteorological Society 14th Symposium on Forest and Fire Meteorology: Minneapolis, MN, May 2, 2023-May 4, 2023

Hosseinpour, F. E., Brown, T. J. (2023). Developing sub-seasonal to seasonal vegetation greenness outlooks. American Meteorological Society 14th Symposium on Forest and Fire Meteorology: Minneapolis, MN, May 2, 2023-May 4, 2023

Brown, T. J., Fearon, M. G., Reinbold, H. J., Podnar, D. (2023). Creating a 43-Year High Spatial and Temporal Resolution WRF Reanalysis for California and Nevada. American Meteorological Society 14th Symposium on Forest and Fire Meteorology: Minneapolis, MN, May 2, 2023-May 4, 2023

Hosseinpour, F. E., Brown, T. J. (2023). Developing sub-seasonal to seasonal vegetation greenness outlooks. American Meteorological Society 14th Symposium on Forest and Fire Meteorology: Minneapolis, MN, May 2, 2023-May 4, 2023

Andrade, A. J., McEvoy, D. J., Brown, T. J. (2023). . Potential utility of atmospheric evaporative demand in assessing wildland fire potential. 14th Fire and Forest Meteorology Symposium: Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 1, 2023, Oral presentation

Hosseinpour, F. E., Zare Harofteh, A., Kumar, N., Brown, T. J., Huang, S., Huang, S., Kramer, S., Besong, K., Besong, K. (2023). Advancing Smoke Management and Wildfire Mitigation through Probability-Based Smoke Transport Analysis. 22nd Annual CMAS Conference 2023: Chapel Hill, NC, October 16, 2023-October 18, 2023

Brown, T. J., Anderson, M., Casola, J., Kluck, D., Wall, T. U., Pulwarty, R. (2023). Seeing and being seen in a network of climate service “providers”. American Geophysical Union: San Francisco, CA, December 11, 2023-December 15, 2023

Brown, T. J. (2023). Panel presentation on wildfire. IndyFest Panel: Las Vegas, NV [virtual], October 6, 2023

Brown, T. J. (2023). The 2022 Wildfire Season: 420,002,022nd year of biomass burning on Earth. MITRE Corporation: [virtual], October 4, 2023

Brown, T. J. (2023). Future climate, future fire. Wildfire Technology Management Conference: Sacramento, CA, April 26, 2023, Invited keynote speaker.

2022
Brown, T. J. (2022). The 2021 Wildfire Season: 420,002,021st Year of Biomass Burning on Earth. American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting: [Virtual], January 25, 2022, Invited presentation.

Brown, T. J. (2022). The 2022 Wildfire Season? 420,000,022nd year of biomass burning on Earth (Mensa Edition), Mensa Annual Gathering: Sparks, Nevada, July 7, 2022

Brown, T. J. (2022). 420,022,022nd year of biomass burning on Earth (NWA Edition), Virtual meeting, National Weather Association: Pittsburg, PA, August 22, 2022, Invited speaker

Brown, T. J., Andrade, A., McEvoy, D. J., Parker, B. A. (2022). Exploring atmospheric evaporative demand in relation to wildland fire, Advances in Forest Fire Research. IX International Conference on Forest Fire Research: Coimbra, Portugal, November 14, 2022-November 18, 2022

Brown, T. J., Andrade, A., McEvoy, D. J. (2022). Atmospheric evaporative demand in relation to wildland fire. Wildland Fire Canada Conference: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, November 3, 2022

Brown, T. J., Christianson, A. (2022). Amy and Tim’s Everything We Know About Fire – Episode 1: Oh, Canada, Wildland Fire Canada Conference: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, November 3, 2022

Brown, T. J., Wall, T. U. (2022). Determining criteria for messaging NWS Red Flag Warnings, National Weather Service Fire on the 5s: [virtual], October 25, 2022

Brown, T. J. (2022). Fire weather/drought/climate change, University of Nebraska – Lincoln: Lincoln, NE, October 14, 2022, Course lecture.

Brown, T. J. (2022). Perspectives on wildland fire, Wildfire Panel with Nevada Wildlife Federation: Reno, NV, June 22, 2022

Brown, T. J. (2022). Wildfire: The confluence of climate, fuels, and people, Reinsurance Association of America: [virtual], June 8, 2022

Brown, T. J., Abatzoglou, J. T., McEvoy, D. J., Skelly, D., St. Denise, L. A., Parkinson, T. (2022). Nighttime fire behavior and climate change – A new paradigm for wildland fire management, International Association of Wildland Fire, Fire & Climate 2022 Conference: Pasadena, CA, May 23, 2022-May 27, 2022

Brown, T. J., Abatzoglou, J. T., McEvoy, D. J., Skelly, D., St. Denise, L. A., Parkinson, T. (2022). Climate Change and Nighttime Fire Behavior, 3rd International Conference on Fire Behaviour and Risk: Alghero, Sardinia, Italy, May 3, 2022-May 6, 2022

Brown, T. J. (2022). Wildland Fire – Natural Hazards, University of Oklahoma: [virtual], February 24, 2022, Course lecture.

Billmire, M., French, N., Brown, T. J., Hosseinpour, F. E., Tavasoli, O., Kletter, W. (2022). Long-term climate change impacts on fire occurrence in California. Fire & Climate 2022: International Association of Wildland Fire, Pasadena: Pasadena, CA, May 26, 2022, (Talk)

2021
Boisramé, G., Brown, T. J., Bachelet, D. (2021). Trends in Western US Fire Fuels Using Historical Data and Modeling. 9th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress, November 30, 2021-December 3, 2021

Pierce, D. W., Cayan, D. R., Brown, T. J. (2021). A Recent Increase in Extreme Low Relative Humidity Hours in the Southwestern U.S.. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting: New Orleans, LA, December 13, 2021-December 17, 2021

Brown, T. J. (2021). Achieving science for society – A personal voyage. 1st Youth Earth and Environmental Science Conference: [Virtual], October 30, 2021, Invited presentation.

Wall, T. U., Brown, T. J. (2021). Building the capacity of people to use the new drought.gov. Fourth National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy Workshop: [Virtual], October 4, 2021-October 7, 2021

Brown, T. J. (2021). The Fire and Smoke Model Evaluation Experiment. DRI Science Distilled: [Virtual], September 15, 2021, Invited presentation.

Brown, T. J. (2021). A mine of wildfire. National Association of Abandoned Mine Land Programs: [Virtual], September 13, 2021, Invited keynote presentation.

Brown, T. J. (2021). A perspective on wildfire. Environmental Defense Fund: [Virtual], September 4, 2021, Invited presentation.

Brown, T. J. (2021). The timeline of climate, weather, and fire. Living with Fire Webinar: [Virtual], June 10, 2021, Invited presentation.

Brown, T. J., McEvoy, D. J. (2021). Climate change attribution of nighttime fire behavior. 13th Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology, American Meteorological Society: [Virtual], May 11, 2021-May 13, 2021

Lindley, T. T., Daily, D. C., Brown, T. J. (2021). A ‘domino fall’ guidance process linking climate to strategic seasonal actions for fire operations in Oklahoma. 13th Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology, American Meteorological Society: [Virtual], May 11, 2021-May 13, 2021

Brown, T. J. (2021). Addressing our wildland fire weather needs. American Meteorological Society Washington Forum: [Virtual], April 26, 2021-April 29, 2021, Invited presentation.

Brown, T. J. (2021). Wildland fire-climate-weather connections and management planning, policy, and interfacing between science and decision-making. Operation Sierra Storm Broadcast Meteorology Workshop: South Lake Tahoe, NV, January 26, 2021, Invited presentation.

Brown, T. J. (2021). The 2020 Wildfire Season: 420,002,020th Year of Biomass Burning on Earth. American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting: [Virtual], January 15, 2021, Invited presentation.

Brown, T. J., Clark, S., Mills, G., Harris, S., Abatzoglou, J. T. (2021). In 5 minutes – Downscaled GCM climate projections of fire weather over Victoria, Australia. Part 1: Evaluation of the MACA technique and Part 2: A multi-model ensemble of 21st century trends. DRI Lightning Lunch: Wildland Fire, Smoke, and Human Dimensions of Fire, January 12, 2021

Brown, T. J. (2021). Fire weather/drought/climate change. University of Nebraska: Lincoln, NE, November 9, 2021, Course lecture. Invited presentation.

Brown, T. J. (2021). Earth’s changing climate – drought, fire, and extremes. Sienna Progressive Club, Las Vegas, NV: [Virtual], November 8, 2021, Invited presentation.

Brown, T. J. (2021). Wildland fire – Natural Hazards. University of Oklahoma: [Virtual], March 25, 2021, Course lecture. Invited presentation.

Brown, T. J., Podnar, D. (2021). The California and Nevada Smoke and Air Committee – Operations and data for fire weather, smoke, and air quality. San Jose State University Fire Weather Workshop: [Virtual], April 8, 2021, Invited presentation.

2020
Brown, T. J., Larkin, N. K., Fearon, M. G., Podnar, D., McCurdy, G. D., Dubowy, J., Solomon, R. C., Lahm, P. (2020). Current operational products for smoke management (Parts 1 & 2). IAWF 3rd International Smoke Symposium: [virtual], April 23, 2020

Brown, T. J. (2020). The 2019 Wildfire Season: 420,002,019th year of biomass burning on Earth. American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting: Boston, MA, January 12, 2020-January 16, 2020, Invited presentation.

Hosseinpour, F. E., Brown, T. J., Larki, N. K., Lahm, P. W. (2020). Air Quality During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Novel Development of Wildfire Smoke Emission Forecasts from an Early Warning System. American Geophysical Union (AGU) Annual Meeting: [Virtual], December 2, 2020

Brown, T. J. (2020). Climate Information and the Wildland Fire Community: A Services Perspective. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting: [Virtual], December 10, 2020, Invited presentation.

2019
Wall, T. U., Brown, T. J. (2019). Red Flag Warnings: When, Why, and How are They Used?. American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting: Phoenix, AZ, January 6, 2019-February 10, 2021

Wall, T. U., Brown, T. J. (2019). Red Flag Warning and Fire Weather Watches: Navigating Effective Communication Between Fire Managers and Forecasters. AMS 47th Conference of Broadcast Meteorology / 5th Conference of Weather Warnings and Communications: San Diego, CA, June 11, 2019-June 13, 2019

Wall, T. U., Brown, T. J. (2019). Red Flag Warnings and Watches-Wow, did they really think that would happen?. 3rd Annual National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy Workshop: Plymouth, MA, October 22, 2019-October 25, 2019

Wall, T. U., Brown, T. J. (2019). Overview on National Integrated Drought Information System. 3rd Annual National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy Workshop: Plymouth, MA, October 22, 2019-October 25, 2019

2018
Brown, T. J. (2018). The 2017 (and 2018) California extreme fires – A local perspective seen globally. VIII International Conference on Forest Fire Research: Coimbra, Portugal, November 9, 2018-November 16, 2018, Plenary presentation.

Brown, T. J., Wall, T. U. (2018). Red Flag Warnings – Do They Adequately Warn the Public and Support Resource Management?. IAWF 15th International Wildland Fire Safety Summit and 5th Human Dimensions of Wildland Fire Conference: Asheville, NC, December 10, 2018-December 14, 2018

Brown, T. J. (2018). Some DRI briefing things for the Predictive Services annual meeting. Predictive Services annual meeting: Boise, ID, December 5, 2018-December 6, 2018

Kochanski, A., Mallia, D. V., Fearon, M. G., Brown, T. J., Mandel, J., Vaughan, J. K. (2018). Do we need weather prediction models to account for local weather modifications by wildland fires? Viegas, D. X. (Ed.) , Advances in Forest Fire Research, 9 pp.. VIII International Conference on Forest Fire Research, University of Coimbra Press: Coimbra, Portugal, November 9, 2018-November 16, 2018

Brown, T. J. (2018). Some DRI briefing things for FIRESCOPE. FIRESCOPE: San Diego, CA, November 7, 2018

Brown, T. J. (2018). Changing Climate, Changing Times. California-Nevada-Hawaii Forest Fire Council: Truckee, CA, October 10, 2018

Brown, T. J. (2018). Wildfire and Health. Citizens Climate public meeting: Carson City, NV, October 10, 2018

Wall, T. U., Brown, T. J., Kimutis, N. (2018). Red Flag Warning criteria. National Weather Service Fire Weather Workshop: Boise, ID, September 18, 2018-September 20, 2018

Brown, T. J. (2018). History of the Red Flag Warning. National Weather Service Fire Weather Workshop: Boise, ID, September 18, 2018-September 20, 2018

Brown, T. J. (2018). Season fire update. NOAA Climate Science and Services Monthly Climate Update (Webinar), August 16, 2018

Brown, T. J. (2018). Wildland Fire Trends in the U.S.. American Association for the Advancement of Science (Webinar), August 13, 2018

Kochanski, A., Mallia, D. V., Mandel, J., Schranz, S., Fearon, M. G., Brown, T. J. (2018). Simulating Plume Rise, Dispersion and Radiative Smoke Impacts in a Coupled Fire-Atmosphere Framework. IAWF Fire Continuum Conference: Missoula, MT, May 21, 2018-May 25, 2018

Brown, T. J., Wall, T. U. (2018). The NIDIS Drought and Wildfire Nexus. IAWF Fire Continuum Conference: Missoula, MT, May 21, 2018-May 25, 2018

Mallia, D. V., Kochanski, A. K., Fearon, M. G., Brown, T. J., Mandel, J. (2018). Does wildfire smoke impact local inversions?. American Meteorological Society 12th Fire and Forest Meteorology Symposium: Boise, ID, May 15, 2018-May 17, 2018

Brown, T. J., McEvoy, D. J., Wall, T. U., Hobbins, M. (2018). Connecting Drought and Wildfire. American Meteorological Society 12th Fire and Forest Meteorology Symposium: Boise, ID, May 15, 2018-May 17, 2018

McEvoy, D. J., Brown, T. J., Huntington, J. L., Wall, T. U., VanderMolen, K.A., Hobbins, M., Svoboda, M. (2018). Update: Establishing Relationships between Drought and Wildfire Danger Indices for Improved Wildfire Risk Management. California FIRESCOPE, May 9, 2018

Brown, T. J. (2018). What would a North American drought-fire nexus look like?. 2018 North American Drought Monitor Forum: Calgary, Alberta, Canada, May 1, 2018

Brown, T. J. (2018). Climate, Weather and Smoke Tools for Prescribed Fire. Nevada Prescribed Fire Alliance: Reno, NV, April 18, 2018

Brown, T. J. (2018). Forest Fires and Climate Change in the U.S.. 3rd Annual Air Pollution and Climate Change Symposium: Fresno, CA, April 7, 2018

Brown, T. J., Harris, S., Mills, G. (2018). Victoria Fire Weather Climatology Dataset. Country Fire Authority: Victoria, Australia, March 13, 2018

Brown, T. J., Oakley, N. S. (2018). Recap of December 2017 Southern California Wildfires. California-Nevada Drought Early Warning System 2018 Southern California Winter Status Update: San Diego, CA, February 7, 2018

Brown, T. J. (2018). Climate Tools for Fire Behavior. Webinar lecture for S590 – Advanced Fire Behavior, National Advanced Fire and Resource Institute: Tucson, AZ, January 24, 2018

McEvoy, D. J., Wall, T. U., Brown, T. J., Huntington, J. L., Hobbins, M., Svoboda, M. (2018). Establishing Relationships between Drought and Wildfire Danger Indices for Improved Wildfire Risk Management. American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting: Austin, TX, January 7, 2018-January 11, 2018

Brown, T. J. (2018). Environmental and Social Factors That Led to the October 2017 Northern California Firestorm (and Then Again in Southern California in December). American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting: Austin, TX, January 7, 2018-January 11, 2018, Invited talk.

Brown, T. J. (2018). The 2017 Wildfire Season: 420,002,017th Year of Biomass Burning on Earth. American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting: Austin, TX, January 7, 2018-January 11, 2018, Invited talk.

Zou, Y., O’Neill, S. M., Larkin, N. K., Alvarado, E., Solomon, R. C., Brown, T. J. (2018). PM2.5 Source Apportionment Analysis for the 2018 Large Wildfires in California. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting: Washington, DC, December 10, 2018-December 14, 2018

McEvoy, D. J., Hobbins, M., Brown, T. J., VanderMolen, K.A., Wall, T. U. (2018). The Evaporative Demand Drought Index: Research and Applications for Wildland Fire Management. Predictive Services Winter Meeting: Meridian, Idaho, December 4, 2018-December 6, 2018

McEvoy, D. J., Hobbins, M., Brown, T. J., VanderMolen, K.A., Wall, T. U. (2018). The Evaporative Demand Drought Index: Research and Applications for Wildland Fire Management. Advanced Fire Environment Learning Unit Fall Webinar, November 7, 2018

McEvoy, D. J., Hobbins, M., Brown, T. J., VanderMolen, K.A., Wall, T. U., Huntington, J. L., Svoboda, M. (2018). Establishing Relationships Between Drought and Wildfire Danger Indices for Improved Wildfire Risk Management. Nevada Water Resources Association Fall Symposium: Reno, Nevada, September 25, 2018-September 26, 2018

Wall, T. U., Brown, T. J., Parksinson, T., Zimmerman, T. (2018). Weather, Climate, and Wildfire: developing and implementing research for wildfire management and policy. American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting: Washington D.C., December 10, 2018-December 13, 2019

2017
Brown, T. J. (2017). How to organize a very large coupled fire-atmosphere field experiment, Invited talk.. Monash University: Clayton, Victoria, Australia, April 7, 2017

French, N., Ottmar, R., Brown, T. J., Larkin, N., Prichard, S., Watts, A. C. (2017). Fire and Smoke Model Evaluation Experiment (FASMEE): Coordination of a Study to Improve Smoke Modeling for Fire Operations within the United States. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting: New Orleans, LA, December 11, 2017-December 14, 2017

Brown, T. J., Wall, T. U. (2017). [Untitled presentation]. NIDIS Drought and Wildfire Nexus (NDAWN) Sub-Regional Workshop: Reno, NV, December 7, 2017

Brown, T. J., Wall, T. U. (2017). Understanding the role of past, current and future drought information in wildland fire management. 7th Association of Fire Ecology International Fire Congress, Fire Circle Workshop: Orlando, FL, November 29, 2017

Brown, T. J., Wall, T. U. (2017). [Untitled presentation]. Regional Climate Centers Strategic Goals: Kansas City, MO, November 7, 2017-November 8, 2017

Brown, T. J. (2017). DRI activity update briefing for California FIRESCOPE, November 16, 2017

Brown, T. J. (2017). NOAA West Watch Wildfire Update: 420,002,017th year of biomass burning on Earth (California Edition). NOAA West Collaboration Team Webinar, October 24, 2017

Brown, T. J., Oakley, N. S. (2017). NWS Pacific Region Climate Services: Planning for the Future. National Weather Service, Pacific Region Headquarters: Honolulu, HI, August 30, 2017-August 31, 2017

Brown, T. J. (2017). NOAA West Watch Wildfire Update: 420,002,017th year of biomass burning on Earth. NOAA West Collaboration Team Webinar, August 22, 2017

Brown, T. J. (2017). Kelly Redmond Tribute: Observations of an Extreme Climatologist. American Meteorological Society 23rd Conference on Applied Climatology: Asheville, NC, June 26, 2017-June 28, 2017

Brown, T. J., Wall, T. U. (2017). Wildfire +Drought. California-Nevada Drought Early Warning System First Annual Coordination Workshop: Reno, NV, June 21, 2017-June 22, 2017

Brown, T. J., Wall, T. U. (2017). [Untitled presentation]. NDAWN Sub-Regional Workshop: Vancouver, WA, June 1, 2017

Brown, T. J., Wall, T. U. (2017). [Untitled presentation]. NDAWN Sub-Regional Workshop: Missoula, MT, May 31, 2017

Brown, T. J., Wall, T. U. (2017). Understanding the role of past, current and future drought information in the implementation of the Cohesive Strategy. International Association of Wildland Fire National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy Workshop: Reno, NV, April 27, 2017

Brown, T. J. (2017). Climatology and Fire Danger, Lesson 7. Lecture for Advanced National Fire Danger Rating System. National Advanced Fire and Resource Institute: Tucson, AZ, March 8, 2017

Brown, T. J., Wall, T. U. (2017). Changes in Fire Extremes and Beyond Firefighter Experience. 14th International Wildland Fire Safety Summit: Barcelona, Spain, January 31, 2017

Brown, T. J. (2017). The 2016 Wildfire Season: 420,002,016th year of biomass burning on Earth. American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting: Seattle, WA, January 22, 2017-January 26, 2017

Wall, T. U., Brown, T. J., Nausler, N. (2017). Spot Weather Forecast: Improving Utilization, Communication, and Perceptions of Accuracy in Sophisticated User Groups. American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting: Seattle, WA, January 21, 2017-January 25, 2018

2016
Brown, T. J., Fearon, M. G., McCurdy, G. D. (2016). Assessing the Quality of Wind Observations Using a Regional Scale Model. American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting. American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting: New Orleans, LA, January 12, 2016

Brown, T. J. (2016). Drought, fire and climate change. Glen Gerberg Weather and Climate Summit: Breckenridge, CO, January 19, 2016

Watts, A. C., Dickinson, M., Brown, T. J., Ottmar, R. D., Larkin, N. K., French, N., Pritchard, S. J. (2016). FASMEE (Fire and Smoke Model Evaluation Experiment) and UAS. Invited talk at the NASA/U.S. Forest Service Tactical Fire Remote Sensing Advisory Committee Spring Meeting: Mountain View, CA, May 25, 2016

Brown, T. J. (2016). A fire place for climate: The convergence of fire, smoke, and people. IAWF 2nd International Smoke Symposium: Long Beach, CA, November 14, 2016-November 17, 2016, Invited plenary talk.

Brown, T. J., Wall, T. U., Lahm, P. (2016). The nexus of drought, smoke, and societal impacts. IAWF 2nd International Smoke Symposium: Long Beach, CA, November 14, 2016-November 17, 2016

Brown, T. J., Ottmar, R., Larkin, S., French, N. (2016). FASMEE: Fire and Smoke Model Model Evaluation Experiment, Invited seminar. Invited Seminar, Washington State University: Pullman, WA, November 9, 2016

Brown, T. J., Mills, G., Harris, S., Podnar, D., Reinbold, H. J., Fearon, M. G. (2016). Utilizing hi-resolution gridded fire climate and danger data for risk assessment. Wildland Fire Canada 2016: Building Resilience: Kelowna, BC, Canada, October 24, 2016-October 28, 2016

Brown, T. J., Mills, G., Harris, S., Podnar, D., Reinbold, H. J., Fearon, M. G. (2016). Hi-resolution fire weather and climatology from dynamical downscaling. Invited seminar.. Invited Seminar, San Jose State University: San Jose, CA, September 27, 2016

Brown, T. J., Wall, T. U. (2016). Utilizing drought science and information in wildfire managment decision context. IAWF 5th International Fuels and Fire Behavior Conference: Portland, OR, April 12, 2016-April 14, 2016

Brown, T. J., Huntington, J. L., McEvoy, D. J. (2016). The spatialness of drought and fire shaped by a cloud: Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, March 17, 2016

Brown, T. J. (2016). The 2015 Wildfire Season: 420,002,015th year of biomass burning on Earth. American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting: New Orleans, LA, January 10, 2016-January 14, 2016

2015
Fearon, M. G., Brown, T. J. (2015). Establishing a national standard for operational mixing height determination. AMS 11th Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology: Minneapolis, MN, May 5, 2015

Brown, T. J., Short, K., Riley, K., Jolly, M., Freeborn, P., Nauslar, N. J. (2015). What is fire season and how long is it?. 6th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress: San Antonio, TX, November 19, 2015

Brown, T. J., Ottmar, R., Larkin, S. (2015). Fire and Smoke Model Evaluation Experiment (FASMEE). Invited webinar presentation: The Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre, October 28, 2015

Brown, T. J., Wall, T. U., Nauslar, N. J. (2015). Fire Extremes and the Triangle of Climate, Fuels, and People. 6th International Wildland Fire Conference: Pyeonghchang, Korea, October 13, 2015

Harris, S., Mills, G., Brown, T. J., Podnar, D., Fearon, M. G., Reinbold, H. J. (2015). Victoria fire weather climatology dataset. Proceedings of the Research Forum at the Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC & AFAC conference: Adelaide, Australia, September 1, 2015

Brown, T. J. (2015). A Perspective on Climate, Drought, Wildfire and Resiliency. Invited presentation. Oklahoma Emergency Management/Association Annual Conference: Norman, OK, August 19, 2015

Pulwarty, R., Brown, T. J. (2015). Climate, drought and wildland fire policy. Colorado State University Wildland Fire and Smoke Workshop: Longmont, CO, August 13, 2015

Brown, T. J. (2015). Fire and Smoke Model Evaluation Experiment (FASMEE). Invited presentation. Colorado State University Wildland Fire and Smoke Workshop: Longmont, CO, August 13, 2015

Brown, T. J. (2015). Drought and Wildland Fire Policy. Invited presentation. Western States Drought Coordinators and Emergency Managers Meeting: Seattle, WA, July 21, 2015

Brown, T. J. (2015). Wildland Fire Potential Outlook 2015. Invited presentation. Western States Drought Coordinators and Emergency Managers Meeting: Seattle, WA, July 21, 2015

Watts, A. C., Fenstermaker, L.F., McGwire, K. C., Wilcox, E.M., Brown, T. J. (2015). Fire and UAS projects at the Desert Research Institute. Presentation at University of British Columbia: Okanagon, June 18, 2015

Brown, T. J., Mills, G., Harris, S., Podnar, D., Fearon, M. G., Reinbold, H. J. (2015). Hi-resolution fire weather and climatology from dynamical downscaling. ICBFR: Alhero, Italy, May 28, 2015

Brown, T. J., Mills, G., Harris, S., Podnar, D., Fearon, M. G., Reinbold, H. J. (2015). Hi-resolution fire weather and climatology from dynamical downscaling. American Meteorological Society 11th Fire and Forest Meteorology Symposium: Minneapolis, MN, May 6, 2015

Wall, T. U., Brown, T. J., Nauslar, N. J. (2015). Fire Extremes and the Triangle of Fire, Fuels, and People – Part 1. International Association of Wildland Fire Human Dimensions Conference: Boise, ID, April 20, 2015

Wall, T. U., Brown, T. J., Nauslar, N. J. (2015). Fire Extremes and the Triangle of Fire, Fuels, and People – Part 2. International Association of Wildland Fire Human Dimensions Conference: Boise, ID, April 20, 2015

Brown, T. J., Mills, G., Harris, S., Podnar, D., Fearon, M. G., Reinbold, H. J. (2015). Hi-resolution fire weather and climatology from dynamical downscaling. Seminar presentation School of Earth Atmosphere and Environment, Faculty of Science, Monash University: Clayton, Victoria, March 27, 2015

Brown, T. J., Mills, G., Harris, S., Podnar, D., Fearon, M. G., Reinbold, H. J. (2015). Finally, A 40-year mesoscale gridded fire climatology for Victoria. Project briefing for the Victoria Department of Environment and Primary Industries, April 7, 2015

Brown, T. J. (2015). Climatology and Fire Danger, Lesson 8. Lecture for Advanced National Fire Danger Rating System. National Advanced Fire and Resource Institute: Tucson, AZ, March 11, 2015

Hall, B. L., Brown, T. J. (2015). An hourly operational fire danger monitoring tool. 2015 Midwest Fire Conference: Dubuque, IA, February 17, 2015

Brown, T. J. (2015). Review of Climate Change Impacts in the West and some thoughts about managing them. Invited presentation. Western States Urban Forestry, February 4, 2015

Brown, T. J. (2015). The 2014 Wildfire Season: 420,002,014th year of biomass burning on Earth. American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting: Phoenix, AZ, January 12, 2016

2014
Albano, C. M., Dettinger, M. D., McCarthy, M. M., Cox, D. A., Brown, T. J. (2014). ARkStorm@Tahoe: Addressing social and ecological resiliency to extreme winter storm events in the Sierra Nevadas. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting: Sacramento, CA, August 10, 2014

Brown, T. J. (2014). U.S. and Global Wildfire Impacts in 2013. American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting: Atlanta, GA, February 4, 2014

Brown, T. J., Larkin, N., Lahm, P. (2014). How Applied Climate Fits in with the Management of Wildfire Smoke Health Impacts. American Meteorological Society 21st Conference on Applied Climatology: Westminster, CO, June 9, 2014

Brown, T. J., Wall, T. U., Nauslar, N. J. (2014). Extremes in Fire – The Intersection of Climate, Fuels and People. Wildland Fire Canada 2014: Halifax, Nova Scotia, October 7, 2014

Brown, T. J., Larkin, N., Lahm, P. (2014). The Current State and Future of Wildfire Smoke and Air Quality Modeling. American Association for Aerosol Research 33rd Annual Conference: Orlando, FL, October 20, 2014

Brown, T. J., Mills, G., Harris, H., Podnar, D., Reinbold, H. J., Fearon, M. G. (2014). A hi-resolution 40-year gridded fire weather/danger climatology for Victoria, Australia. VII International Conference on Forest Fire Research: Coimbra, Portugal, November 17, 2014

Brown, T. J., Wall, T. U., Nauslar, N. J. (2014). Extremes in Fire – The Intersection of Climate, Fuels and People. VII International Conference on Forest Fire Research: Coimbra, Portugal, November 17, 2014

Garfin, G., Wall, T. U., Haartmann, H., Brugger, J., Brown, T. J. (2014). Climate Change Adaptation Planning in the Great Basin. University of Arizona College of Agriculture & Life Sciences Poster Forum: Tucson, AZ, November 10, 2014

Mills, G., Brown, T. J., Harris, S., Podnar, D., Reinbold, H. J. (2014). Modelling the mesoscale fire weather climatology of Victoria. Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society National Conference: Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, February 12, 2014

Wall, T. U., Brown, T. J., Sexton, T. (2014). Extremes in Fire – The Intersection of Climate, Fuels and People. Large Wildland Fires – Social, Political and Ecological Effects Conference: Missoula, MT, May 19, 2014

Brown, T. J. (2014). Fire as a Physical Process. Invited talk. Interagency Wildfire Course RX310 lecture: Atlanta, GA, January 15, 2014

Brown, T. J. (2014). Fire Effects – A Climate Perspective. Invited talk. Interagency Wildfire Course RX310 lecture: Atlanta, GA, January 15, 2014

Brown, T. J. (2014). Seasonal forecasts and downscaling for fire climate. Invited talk. Lecture at the University of Sassari: Sassari, Sardinia, Italy, January 24, 2014

Brown, T. J., Mills, G., Harris, S., Podnar, D., Fearon, M. G., Reinbold, H. J. (2014). Fire weather climatology of Victoria. Invited talk. Project briefing for the Victoria Department of Environment and Primary Industries: Melbourne, VIC, March 24, 2014

Brown, T. J. (2014). Co-Production of Fire Knowledge – Perspectives from a western regional climate center and RISA. Invited talk. NOAA Headquarters: Silver Springs, MD, December 10, 2014

Brown, T. J. (2014). Seasonal Wildfire Outlook 2014. Invited talk. California Drought Forum: Sacramento, CA, May 15, 2014

Brown, T. J., Mills, G., Harris, S., Podnar, D., Fearon, M. G., Reinbold, H. J. (2014). Fire weather climatology of Victoria. Invited talk. Project briefing for the Victoria Country Fire Authority: Melbourne, VIC, March 25, 2014

Brown, T. J. (2014). Meteorological Data for Fire Danger Products. Invited talk. GOFC-GOLD IT: Greenbelt, MD, July 30, 2014

Brown, T. J. (2014). Wildfire and Air Quality. Invited talk. Tahoe Climate Science Symposium: Incline Village, NV, November 13, 2014

McCarthy, M. A., Kenneston, A., Wall, T. U., Brown, T. J., Redmond, K. T. (2014). Climate Resiliency Planning: Making Extreme Event Science Useful for Managers and Planners in Northern Nevada, Vol. 1, p. 4059. In 2014 AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts: San Francisco, CA, December 14, 2014

2013
Brown, T. J. (2013). U.S. and Global Wildfire Impacts in 2012. American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting: Austin, TX, January 8, 2013

Brown, T. J., Delgado, E. (2013). Monthly to Seasonal in Support of Wildland Fire Decision-Making. American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting: Austin, TX, January 10, 2013

Brown, T. J. (2013). Adaptation to Wildfires in the West: Linking Science to Action. National Adaptation Forum: Denver, CO, March 3, 2013

Brown, T. J. (2013). Seasonal Forecasting for the Global EWS. GOFC-GOLD IT: Waginingen, The Netherlands, April 16, 2013

Brown, T. J., Delgado, E. (2013). Perspectives in Seasonal Fire Forecasting. 4th International Fire Behavior and Fuels Conference: St. Petersburg, Russia, July 1, 2013

Brown, T. J. (2013). Fire Weather and Smoke Management Forecasting in California and Nevada – The Co-Production of Science and Operations. U.C. Davis Conference on Traversing New Terrain in Meteorological Modeling, Air Quality and Dispersion: Davis, CA, September 12, 2013

Brown, T. J., Jackman, T., Achtemieier, G., Goodrick, S. (2013). Bringing PB-Piedmont to Users: Web Implementation of a Surface Drift Smoke Model. IAWF International Smoke Symposium: College Park, MD, October 23, 2013

Brown, T. J., Clements, C., Larkin, S. (2013). Results from the JFSP Smoke Model Validation Workshop. IAWF International Smoke Symposium: College Park, MD, October 24, 2013

Fearon, M. G., Brown, T. J., Curcio, G. (2013). Establishing a National Standard Methodology for Operational Mixing Height Determination. IAWF International Smoke Symposium: College Park, MD, October 22, 2013

Mills, G., Brown, T. J., Harris, S., Podnar, D., Reinbold, H. J. (2013). A 40-year mesoscale gridded fire weather climatology for Victoria. Proceedings 20th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation: Adelaide, Australia, December 1, 2013

Redmond, K. T., Brown, T. J. (2013). Overview of Climate Change and Effects on Western Great Basin. Washoe County Regional Resiliency Preparedness Study Meeting: Reno, NV, December 20, 2013

Oakley, N. S., Redmond, K. T., Wall, T. U., Brown, T. J. (2013). Current and Future Partnerships for Climate-Related Decision Making in the Great Basin. Great Basin Consortium: Boise, ID, January 13, 2013

Oakley, N. S., Redmond, K. T., Wall, T. U., Brown, T. J. (2013). Improving the Flow of Climate Information in the West. EPSCoR Annual Meeting: Las Vegas, NV, March 27, 2013

Tarnay, L., Schweizer, D., Cisneros, R., Raffuse, S., Brown, T. J., Larkin, S. (2013). Do We Always Need Dispersion Models? Empirical Airshed Capacity Values for Prescribed and Wildland Fire in the Sierra Nevada, California. IAWF International Smoke Symposium: College Park, MD, October 22, 2013

2012
Brown, T. J., Kolden, C. (2012). Climatology Tools for Long-Term Assessment. 2012 PNW Fire Behavior Workshop: Portland, OR, January 20, 2012

Brown, T. J. (2012). Wildfires of 2011. Weather Impacts 2011. American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting,: New Orleans, LA, January 23, 2012

Brown, T. J. (2012). Climate Variability and Impacts on the West. Council of State Governments: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, July 22, 2012

Brown, T. J. (2012). RCC Climate Services. National Weather Service Southern Region Headquarters: Ft. Worth, TX, August 13, 2012

Brown, T. J. (2012). The Climate Data Record and Climate Applications. Panel presentation, Climate Data Record Program: Asheville, NC, July 31, 2012-August 2, 2012

Brown, T. J., Delgado, E. (2012). Monthly to Seasonal Fire Forecasting in the U.S.. Wildland Fire Canada 2012: Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada, October 1, 2012

Brown, T. J., Abatzoglou, J. T., Hall, B. L., Jolly, M. (2012). Three New Fire Weather/Climate Datasets for Decision-Support and Research. 5th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress: Portland, OR, December 3, 2012

Brown, T. J. (2012). CEFA Update. FIRESCOPE Fall Meeting: Sacramento, CA, November 28, 2012

2007
Sherman, W. R., Penick, M. A., Su, S., Brown, T. J., Harris, F. C. (2007). VRFire: an Immersive Visualization Experience for Wildfire Spread Analysis, 243-246. IEEE Virtual Reality 2007: Charlotte, NC

Brown, T. J., Banta, J. R., Hall, B. L. (2007). Predictability of sea surface temperatures for fire danger. Seventh Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology: Bar Harbor

Brown, T. J., Banta, J. R., Hall, B. L. (2007). Global sea surface temperatures and North American fire danger variability. American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting: San Antonio

2005
Brown, T. J., McConnell, J. R. (2005). Climate, fire and human extremes: The merging of shaping factors for 21st century land management (27 October 2005). American Meteorological Society, Sixth Symposium on Fire & Forest Meteorology: Canmore, Canada

Other
2021
Brown, T. J., Wall, T. U. (2021). All Things Remote Automatic Weather Station (RAWS) Summit. Western Regional Climate Center: [Virtual], January 19, 2021-January 21, 2021

2015
Soja, A., Schimel, D., Giglio, L., Loboda, T., French, N., Dibb, J., Moore, T., McCarty, J., da Silva Jr., A., Conrad, S., Douglas, J., Kahn, R., Sohlberg, R., Pankratz, A., Swap, R., Ichoku, C., Hamilton, D., Ambrosia, V., Rodriguez-Franco, C., Stocks, B., Holden, Z., Carroll, M., Weber, K., Harbour, T., Schnase, J., Hinkley, E., Miller, M., Rollins, M., Goodrick, S., Watts, A. C., Goetz, S., Peterson, B., Ziebart, R., Barnard, B., Coen, J., Cissel, J., Brown, T. J., Wiedinmyer, C., Justice, C., Vogelman, J., Brass, J., Randerson, J., Quayle, B., Schichtel, B., Hook, S., Phillips, S., Roy, D. (2015). Prudent observations necessary to address wildland fire science and applications grand challenges: critical feedbacks with the climate system, National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine’s Earth Science and Application Decadal Survey, White paper October 2015, pp. 4

Goodrick, S., Brown, T. J., Jolly, M. (2015). Weather, fuels, fire behavior, plumes and smoke – The nexus of fire meteorology, Fire Management Today