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John T. Abatzoglou
Professor, University of California Merced
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Converging on the Climate Driven Wildfire Risks of the Wildland Urban Interface
AGU 2024
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
AGU 2024
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
AGU 2024
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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Trends, patterns, and social vulnerability landscape of exposure to wildfires in the US
AGU 2024
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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Dynamic precipitation phase partitioning improves modeled simulations of snow across the Northwest US
AGU 2024
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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Coupled human and water system for sustainable water and agriculture management under climate change
AGU 2024
hydrology | 10 december 2024
Yue Qin, Stefan Siebert, Nathan Mueller, Weiyi Gu,...
Sustainable agriculture and food security are becoming increasingly challenging due to the complex interactions among human, water, and climate system...
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Projecting cloud-to-ground lightning and wildfire ignition risk in the western United States
AGU 2024
atmospheric sciences | 10 december 2024
Dmitri A. Kalashnikov, John T. Abatzoglou, Frances...
Cloud-to-ground lightning is a major source of summer wildfire ignition in the western United States (WUS). However, future projections of lightning a...
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Understanding water consumption in the Santa Clara Valley's main crop categories using clustering and trend analysis
AGU 2024
hydrology | 10 december 2024
Abid Sarwar, Josue Medellin-Azuara, John T. Abatzo...
This study examines the trends in water consumption among the main crop categories in the Santa Clara Valley (SCV) using trend analysis and clustering...
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