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John T. Abatzoglou
Researcher at University of California, Merced
Publications - 260
Citations - 19495
John T. Abatzoglou is an academic researcher from University of California, Merced. The author has contributed to research in topics: Climate change & Environmental science. The author has an hindex of 58, co-authored 220 publications receiving 12647 citations. Previous affiliations of John T. Abatzoglou include University of California, Berkeley & University of Idaho.
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Impact of anthropogenic climate change on wildfire across western US forests
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that human-caused climate change caused over half of the documented increases in fuel aridity since the 1970s and doubled the cumulative forest fire area since 1984, and suggests that anthropogenic climate change will continue to chronically enhance the potential for western US forest fire activity while fuels are not limiting.
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TerraClimate, a high-resolution global dataset of monthly climate and climatic water balance from 1958-2015.
TL;DR: TerraClimate datasets showed noted improvement in overall mean absolute error and increased spatial realism relative to coarser resolution gridded datasets, as well as annual runoff from streamflow gauges.
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Development of gridded surface meteorological data for ecological applications and modelling
TL;DR: In this article, a spatially and temporally complete, high-resolution (4-km) gridded dataset of surface meteorological variables required in ecological modelling for the contiguous United States from 1979 to 2010 is presented.
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A comparison of statistical downscaling methods suited for wildfire applications
TL;DR: In this article, two statistical downscaling methods, the daily bias corrected Spatial Downscaling (BCSD) and the Multivariate Adapted Constructed Analogs (MACA), were validated over the western US using global reanalysis data.
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Human-started wildfires expand the fire niche across the United States
Jennifer K. Balch,Bethany A. Bradley,John T. Abatzoglou,R. Chelsea Nagy,Emily J. Fusco,Adam L. Mahood +5 more
TL;DR: Human-started wildfires accounted for 84% of all wildfires, tripled the length of the fire season, dominated an area seven times greater than that affected by lightning fires, and were responsible for nearly half of all area burned, according to analysis of two decades of government agency wildfire records.