A L Westerling

Dados Biográficos

ID7992034
NOMEA L Westerling
PRENOMESA L
SOBRENOMEWesterling
ASSINATURAWESTERLING A L
AFILIAÇÕESUniversity of California, Merced
ORCID0000-0003-4573-0595
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS7
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR7
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2006
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2022
ÍNDICE H0

  • Wildfire burn severity and emissions inventory

    Open AccessQingqing Xu, A L Westerling et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2022

    Wildfire severity is a key indicator of both direct ecosystem impacts and indirect emissions impacts that affect air quality, climate, and public health far beyond the spatial footprint of the flames. Comprehensive, accurate inventories of severity and emissions are essential for assessing these impacts and setting appropriate fire management and health care preparedness strategies, as is the ability to project emissions for future wildfires. The…

  • Spatial and temporal patterns of wildfire burn severity and biomass burning-induced emissions in California

    Open AccessQingqing Xu, A L Westerling et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2022

    Wildfires are an important disturbance in the Earth system, and their emissions have regional and even global impacts on radiation, clouds, and climate. The increased frequency and magnitude of California wildfires in recent years is altering the terrestrial carbon cycle, undermining the state’s efforts to reduce the Greenhouse Gases (GHGs) to confront climate change. Air quality and public health are also greatly affected by air pollution from w…

  • Simulating burn severity maps at 30 meters in two forested regions in California

    Open AccessJonathan A Sam, Wayne J Baldwin et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2022

    Climate change is altering wildfire and vegetation regimes in California’s forested ecosystems. Present day fires are seeing an increase in high burn severity area and high severity patch size. The ability to predict future burn severity patterns could better support policy and land management decisions. Here we demonstrate a methodology to first, statistically estimate individual burn severity classes at 30 meters and second, cluster and smooth …

  • Monster wildfires and metaphor in risk communication

    Teenie Matlock, Chelsea Coe et al.ARTICLEMetaphor and Symbol2017

    This work examines the use and understanding of metaphor in wildfire discourse. We focus on the framing of wildfires as monsters, seen in statements such as “Monster wildfire rages in Colorado” and “Two monster wildfires in Northern California are slowly being tamed,” which reflect a “wildfire is monster” metaphor. Study 1 analyzes how and when this phrase is used in TV news reports of wildfires, and Study 2A and Study 2B investigate how it influ…

  • Climate drives inter-annual variability in probability of high severity fire occurrence in the western United States

    Open AccessA Keyser, A L WesterlingARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2017

    A long history of fire suppression in the western United States has significantly changed forest structure and ecological function, leading to increasingly uncharacteristic fires in terms of size and severity. Prior analyses of fire severity in California forests showed that time since last fire and fire weather conditions predicted fire severity very well, while a larger regional analysis showed that topography and climate were important predict…

  • Increasing western US forest wildfire activity

    Open AccessA L WesterlingARTICLEPhilosophical Transactions of the…2016

    Prior work shows western US forest wildfire activity increased abruptly in the mid-1980s. Large forest wildfires and areas burned in them have continued to increase over recent decades, with most of the increase in lightning-ignited fires. Northern US Rockies forests dominated early increases in wildfire activity, and still contributed 50% of the increase in large fires over the last decade. However, the percentage growth in wildfire activity in …

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

    Open AccessA L Westerling, Hugo G Hidalgo et al.ARTICLEScience2006

    Western United States forest wildfire activity is widely thought to have increased in recent decades, yet neither the extent of recent changes nor the degree to which climate may be driving regional changes in wildfire has been systematically documented. Much of the public and scientific discussion of changes in western United States wildfire has focused instead on the effects of 19th- and 20th-century land-use history. We compiled a comprehensiv…