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Key Findings from the Nevada Division of Water Resources 2021 Water Resource Public Survey

Wildfire and Drought: Impacts on Wildfire Planning, Behavior, and Effects

2020

Abatzoglou, J.T., B.J. Hatchett, P. Fox-Hughes, A.Gershunov, and N.J. Nauslar, 2020: Global climatology of downslope winds. International Journal of Climatology. DOI: 10.1002/joc.6607.
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Aguilera, R., A. Gershunov, S.D. Ilango, J. Guzman Morales and T. Benmarhnia, 2019: Santa Ana winds of Southern California impact PM2.5 with and without smoke from wildfires. GeoHealth, 4, e2019GH000225. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GH000225.
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Albano, C.M., M.D. Dettinger, and A.A. Harpold, 2020, Patterns and drivers of atmospheric river hydrologic variability across the western US, Journal of Hydrometeorology, 21, 17 p.,doi:10.1175/JHM-D-19-0119.1.
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Albano, C. M., K.C. McGwire, M.B. Hausner, D. J. McEvoy, C. G. Morton, and J.L. Huntington, 2020, Drought Sensitivity and Trends of Riparian Vegetation Vigor in Nevada, USA (1985–2018). Remote Sensing, 12(9), 1362.
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Cordeira, J., J. Stock, M.D. Dettinger, A. Young, J. Kalansky, and F.M. Ralph, 2019, A 142-yr climatology of northern California landslides and atmospheric rivers: Bulletin, American Meteorological Society, 100, 1499-1509, doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-18-0158.1.
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Corringham, T. W., F.M. Ralph, A. Gershunov, D.R. Cayan, and C.A. Talbot, 2019, Atmospheric rivers drive flood damages in the western United States. Science Advances, 5(12). doi:10.1126/sciadv.aax4631.
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Feng, D., E. Beighley, R. Raoufi, J. Melack, Y. Zhao, S. Iacobellis, and D. Cayan, 2019, Propagation of future climate conditions into hydrologic response from coastal southern California watersheds, Climatic Change 153 (1-2), 199-218, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-019-02371-3.
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Fogarty, F.A., D.R. Cayan, L.L. DeHaan, E. Fleishman, 2020, Associations of breeding-bird abundance with climate vary among species and trait-based groups in southern California, PLOS ONE 15(3): e0230614, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0230614.
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Gershunov, A., J. Guzman Morales, B. Hatchett, R. Aguilera, T. Shulgina, K. Guirguis, J. Abatzoglou, D. Cayan, D. Pierce, P. Williams, I. Small, R. Clemesha, L. Schwarz, T. Benmarhnia, A. Tardy, 2021: Hot and cold flavors of southern California’s Santa Ana winds: Their causes, trends, and links with wildfire.Climate Dynamics. DOI: 10.1007/s00382-021-05802-z
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Goddard, L. and A. Gershunov, 2020, Impact of El Niño on weather and climate extremes. In El Niño Southern Oscillation in a Changing Climate (eds M. J. McPhaden, A. Santoso, W. Cai),  American Geophysical Union,  In press.
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Goodrich, J.P., D.R. Cayan, and D.W. Pierce, 2020, Climate and Land-Use Controls on Surface Water Diversions in the Central Valley, California, San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science, 18 (1), https://doi.org/10.15447/sfews.2020v18iss1art2.
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Guzman Morales, J. and A. Gershunov, 2019, Climate change suppresses Santa Ana Winds of Southern California and sharpens their seasonality. Geophysical Research Letters, 46, 2772–2780, DOI: 10.1029/2018GL080261.
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Hatchett, B., Q. Cao, P. Dawson, C. Ellis, C. Hecht, B. Kawzenuk, J. Lancaster, T. Osborne, A. Wilson, M. Anderson, M.D. Dettinger, J. Kalansky, M. Kaplan, D. Lettenmaier, N. Oakley, F.M. Ralph, D. Reynolds, A. White, M. Sierks, and E. Sumargo, in review, Observation of an extreme atmospheric river storm with a diverse sensor network, Earth and Space Science, 30 p.
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Nauslar, N., T.J. Brown, D.J. McEvoy, and N. Lareau, 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
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Lamjiri, M.A., F.M. Ralph, and M.D. Dettinger, 2020, Recent changes in United States extreme 3-day precipitation using the R-Cat scale: Journal of Hydrometeorology, 21(6), 12, D07-1221, DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-19-0171.1 .
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Leibel S., M. Nguyen, W. Brick, J. Parker, S. Ilango, R. Aguilera, A. Gershunov, T. Benmarhnia, 2019, Increase in Pediatric Respiratory Visits Associated With Santa Ana Wind-driven Wildfire and PM 2.5 levels in San Diego County. Annals of the American Thoracic Society, doi: 10.1513/AnnalsATS.201902-150OC.
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Kochanski, A. K., D.V. Mallia, , M.G. Fearon, J. Mandel, A.H. Souri, and T.J. Brown, 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, doi: 10.1029/2019JD030558.
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McElroy, S., L. Schwartz, H. Green, I. Corcos, K. Guirguis, A. Gershunov and T. Benmarhnia, 2020: Defining heat waves using sub-regional meteorological data to maximize benefits of early warning systems to population health. Science of the Total Environment, 721. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.137678.
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Myers, M.R., D.R. Cayan, S.F. Iacobellis, J.M. Melack, R.E. Beighley, P.L. Barnard, et al 2019, Santa Barbara area coastal ecosystem vulnerability assessment, California Sea Grant, https://caseagrant.ucsd.edu/project/santa-barbara-area-coastal-ecosystem-vulnerability-assessment-sba-ceva.
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Myers, M.R., P.L. Barnard, E. Beighley, D.R. Cayan, J.E. Dugan, D. Feng, et al., 2019, A multidisciplinary coastal vulnerability assessment for local government focused on ecosystems, Santa Barbara area, California, Ocean & Coastal Management 182. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2019.104921.
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Truettner, C., M.D. Dettinger, E. Ziaco, A.Z. Csank and F. Biondi, 2019, Seasonal analysis of the 2011-2017 North American Monsoon near its northwest boundary: Atmosphere, 10, 143-159, doi:10.3390/atmos10070420.
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Sarfaraz, A., M. Gebremichael, L. Ruopu, J. Dozier, and D. P. Lettenmaier, Can Managed Aquifer Recharge mitigate the groundwater overdraft in California’s Central Valley?, Water Resources Research, in revision.
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Schwartz L. B.J. Malig, J. Guzman Morales, K. Guirguis, A. Gershunov, R. Basu and T. Benmarhnia, 2020: The health burden of fall, winter and spring heat waves in Southern California and contribution of Santa Ana Winds. Environmental Research Letters. 15, 054017.
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Scott, S., A. Westerling, M. Hurteau, M. Zachariah Peery, S. Thompson. 2020 Fire and climate change: Conserving seasonally dry forests is still possible, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2218.
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VanderMolen, K., A.M. Meadow, A. Horangic, and T.U. Wall, 2020, Typologizing Stakeholder Information Use to Better Understand the Impacts of Collaborative Climate Science. Environmental Management, 65, 178-189, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-019-01237-9.
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Williams A.P., J.T. Abatzoglou, A. Gershunov, J. Guzman Morales, D.A. Bishop and D.P. Lettenmaier, 2019: The link between anthropogenic climate change and wildfire in California. Earth’s Future, 7. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019EF00121.
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Williams, E., C. Funk, S. Shukla, and D. McEvoy, 2020, Quantifying Human-Induced Temperature Impacts on the 2018 United States Four Corners Hydrologic and Agro-Pastoral Drought. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 101(1), S11-S16.
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2019

Aguilera, R., A. Gershunov, and T. Benmarhnia, 2019, Atmospheric rivers impact California’s coastal water quality via extreme precipitation. Science of the Total Environment, 671, 488-494, doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.03.318.
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Corringham, T.W. and D.R. Cayan, 2019, The Effect of El Niño on Flood Damages in the Western United States. Weather Climate and Society, 11, 489–504, doi.org/10.1175/WCAS-D-18-0071.1.
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Gershunov, A., T.M. Shulgina, R.E.S. Clemesha, K. Guirguis, D.W. Pierce, M.D. Dettinger, D.A. Lavers, D.R. Cayan, S.D. Polade, J. Kalansky and F.M. Ralph, 2019, Precipitation regime change in Western North America: The role of Atmospheric Rivers. Nature Scientific Reports, 9:9944, DOI:10.1038/s41598-019-46169-w.
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Guzman Morales, J. and A. Gershunov, 2019, Climate change suppresses Santa Ana Winds of Southern California and sharpens their seasonality, Geophysical Research Letters, doi: 10.1029/2018GL080261.
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Lukashov, S.G., J.T Lancaster, N.S. Oakley, B.J. Swanson, 2019, Post-fire debris flows of 9 January 2018, Thomas Fire, southern California: Initiation areas,precipitation and impacts, In Seventh International Conference on Debris-Flow Hazards Mitigation, Association of Environmental and Engineering Geologists Special Publication 28, p. 774-781. ISBN: 978-0-578-51082-8.
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McEvoy, D.J., M. Hobbins, T. J. Brown, K. VanderMolen, T. Wall, J. L. Huntington, and M. Svoboda, 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.
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Oakley, N.S., B.J. Hatchett, D. McEvoy, and L. Rodriguez, 2019, Projected Changes in Ventura County Climate. Western Regional Climate Center, Desert Research Institute, Reno, Nevada.
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Petersen, A. M., E. M. Vincent, and A. L. Westerling, 2019, Discrepancy in scientific authority and media visibility of climate change scientists and contrarians, Nature Communications, 10(1).
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Roche, J., R. Rice, X. Meng, D. Cayan, M. Dettinger, D. Alden, S. Patel, M. Mason, M. Conklin, and R. Bales, 2019, Climate, snow, and soil moisture data set for the Tuolumne and Merced River watersheds, California, USA, Earth System Science Data, 11, 101-110, doi.org/10.5194/essd-11-101-2019.
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VanderMolen, K., T.U. Wall, and B. Daudert, 2019, A Call for the Evaluation of Web-Based Climate Data and Analysis Tools. Bulletin of American Meteorology Society, 100, 257–268, doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-18-0006.1.
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Williams A.P., J.T. Abatzoglou, A. Gershunov, J. Guzman Morales, D.A. Bishop and D.P. Lettenmaier, 2019, The link between anthropogenic climate change and wildfire in California, Eather’s Future, 7, doi.10.1029/2019EF001210.
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Zhang, Z., D.W. Pierce, and D.R. Cayan, 2019, A Deficit of Seasonal Temperature Forecast Skill over West Coast Regions in NMME, Weather and Forecasting, dio:10.1175/WAF-D-18-0172.1.
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