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Warming and Earlier Spring Increase Western U.S. Forest Wildfire Activity

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Science  18 Aug 2006:
Vol. 313, Issue 5789, pp. 940-943
DOI: 10.1126/science.1128834

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vol. 313 no. 5789 940-943

DOI: 
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1128834
PubMed: 
16825536
Published By: 
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Print ISSN: 
0036-8075
Online ISSN: 
1095-9203
History: 
  • Received for publication April 17, 2006
  • Accepted for publication June 28, 2006
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  1. A. L. Westerling1,2,*,
  2. H. G. Hidalgo1,
  3. D. R. Cayan1,3,
  4. T. W. Swetnam4
  1. 1 Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.
  2. 2 University of California, Merced, CA 95344, USA.
  3. 3 U.S. Geological Survey, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.
  4. 4 Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA.
  1. ↵* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: awesterling{at}ucmerced.edu

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  • Warming and Earlier Spring Increase Western U.S. Forest Wildfire Activity

    By A. L. Westerling, H. G. Hidalgo, D. R. Cayan, T. W. Swetnam

    Science : 940-943

    Climate change in the western United States has dramatically increased the number of large forest wildfires during the past 35 years.

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