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John T. Abatzoglou
Professor, University of California Merced
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Dust Event Variations Between China's Different Climate Zones
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: ATMOSPHERES
31 may 2025
John T. Abatzoglou, HUAWEI PI, John Abatzoglou, Ni...
Dust weather may occur and be frequent in some nondry climate zones due to extreme natural climatic or disturbance events and human activities. In ...
COVID‐19 Fueled an Elevated Number of Human‐Caused Ignitions in the Western United States During the 2020 Wildfire Season
EARTH'S FUTURE
08 april 2025
Adam Jorge, John T. Abatzoglou, Erica Fleishman, E...
The area burned in the western United States during the 2020 fire season was the greatest in the modern era. Here we show that the number of human&...
Thank You to Our 2024 Reviewers
EARTH'S FUTURE
29 march 2025
Kelly K. Caylor, John T. Abatzoglou, Carole Dalin,...
On behalf of the journal, AGU, and the scientific community, we, the editors of Earth's Future, are delighted to publish the names of the 1,061 pee...
Converging on the Climate Driven Wildfire Risks of the Wildland Urban Interface
DECISION-RELEVANT UNDERSTANDING OF WEATHER AND CLIMATE EXTREMES AND THEIR IMPACTS I ORAL
atmospheric sciences | 13 december 2024
Alison Kessenich, Melissa S. Bukovsky, Rachel R. M...
Wildfires pose unique risks and challenges in the wildland urban interface (WUI), defined as the geography where houses either intermingle with, or ar...
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Predictive Understanding of Links between Vegetation and Soil Burn Severities Using Physics-informed Machine Learning
WILDFIRE IMPACTS ON WATERSHED HYDROLOGY, BIOGEOCHEMISTRY, AND BIODIVERSITY I ORAL
global environmental change | 12 december 2024
Mojtaba Sadegh, Seyd Teymoor Seydi, John T. Abatzo...
Burn severity is fundamental to post-fire impact assessment and emergency response. Vegetation Burn Severity (VBS) can be derived from satellite obser...
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Observed Increase in Reference Evapotranspiration across North America Largely Due to Anthropogenic Climate Change
DETECTION AND ATTRIBUTION OF ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE CHANGE AND EXTREME WEATHER AND CLIMATE EVENTS I POSTER
global environmental change | 11 december 2024
Emily L. Williams, John T. Abatzoglou
Across North America, warmer temperatures have increased reference evapotranspiration (ETo), taxing limited water resources. Here, we quantify how muc...
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Dynamic precipitation phase partitioning improves modeled simulations of snow across the Northwest US
APPLICATIONS IN SNOW HYDROLOGY II ORAL
hydrology | 11 december 2024
Bhupinderjeet Singh, Mingliang Liu, John T. Abatzo...
Accurate precipitation phase partitioning is crucial in hydrology models as it directly affects the estimation of snowpack, runoff, and infiltration. ...
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Trends, patterns, and social vulnerability landscape of exposure to wildfires in the US
EXTREME EVENTS: OBSERVATIONS AND MODELING III ORAL
atmospheric sciences | 11 december 2024
Mojtaba Sadegh, Arash Modaresi Rad, John T. Abatzo...
An increasing number of wildfire disasters occurred in recent years in the U.S. Here, we demonstrate that cumulative primary human exposure populatio...
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