Fire-climate interactions in the American West since 1400 CE

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Trouet, Valerie ^a   Taylor, Alan H ^b   Wahl, Eugene R ^c   Skinner, Carl N ^d   Stephens, Scott L ^e  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NOAA NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTER   (United States)

^d PACIFIC SOUTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

American West; ENSO; fire synchrony; Little Ice Age; PDSI; wildfire

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; DROUGHT; GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

AMERICAN WEST; ENSO; LITTLE ICE AGE; PDSI; WILDFIRE;

FIRES;

EID: 84883600827     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL041695     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Baisan, C. H., and, T. W. Swetnam, (1990), Fire history on a desert mountain range: Rincon Mountain Wilderness, Arizona, USA, Can. J. For. Res., 20, 1559-1569, doi: 10.1139/x90-208.
2. Barrett, S. W., T. W. Swetnam, and, W. L. Baker, (2005), Indian fire use: Deflating the legend, Fire Manage. Today, 65, 31-34.
3. Cook, E. R., (2000), Niño3 index reconstruction, in International Tree-Ring Data Bank, IGBP PAGES/World Data Center-A for Paleoclimatol. Data Contrib. Ser. 2000-052, NOAA/NGDC Paleoclimatol. Program, Boulder, Colo., USA.
4. Cook, E. R., C. A. Woodhouse, C. M. Eakin, D. M. Meko, and, D. W. Stahle, (2004), Long-term aridity changes in the western United States, Science, 306, 1015-1018, doi: 10.1126/science.1102586.
5. D'Arrigo, R., R. Wilson, and, G. Jacoby, (2006), On the long-term context for late twentieth century warming, J. Geophys. Res., 111, D03103, doi: 10.1029/2005JD006352.
6. Denevan, W., (1992), The Native Population of the Americas in 1492, Univ. of Wis. Press, Madison.
7. Ferretti, D. F., et al., (2005), Unexpected changes to the global methane budget over the past 2000 years, Science, 309, 1714-1717, doi: 10.1126/science.1115193.
8. Gedalof, Z., D. L. Peterson, and, N. J. Mantua, (2005), Atmospheric, climatic, and ecological controls on extreme wildfire years in the northwestern United States, Ecol. Appl., 15, 154-174, doi: 10.1890/03-5116.
9. Graham, N. E., et al., (2007), Tropical Pacific-Mid-latitude teleconnections in medieval times, Clim. Change, 83, 241-285, doi: 10.1007/s10584-007-9239-2.
10. Gray, S. T., L. J. Graumlich, J. L. Betancourt, and, G. T. Pederson, (2004), A tree-ring based reconstruction of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation since 1567 AD, Geophys. Res. Lett., 31, L12205, doi: 10.1029/2004GL019932.
11. Grissino-Mayer, H. D., and, T. W. Swetnam, (2000), Century-scale climate forcing of fire regimes in the American Southwest, Holocene, 10, 213-220, doi: 10.1191/095968300668451235.
12. Grove, J. M., (1988), The Little Ice Age, Routledge, Oxon, U. K.
13. Haurwitz, M. W., and, G. W. Brier, (1981), A critique of the superposed epoch analysis method: Its application to solar weather relations, Mon. Weather Rev., 109, 2074-2079, doi: 10.1175/1520-0493(1981)109<2074:ACOTSE>2.0.CO;2.
14. Heyerdahl, E. K., L. B. Brubaker, and, J. K. Agee, (2002), Annual and decadal climate forcing of historical fire regimes in the interior Pacific Northwest, USA, Holocene, 12, 597-604, doi: 10.1191/0959683602hl570rp.
15. Heyerdahl, E. K., et al., (2008), Climate drivers of regionally synchronous fires in the inland Northwest (1651-1900), Int. J. Wildland Fire, 17, 40-49, doi: 10.1071/WF07024.
16. Kelly, A. E., and, M. L. Goulden, (2008), Rapid shifts in plant distribution with recent climate change, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A., 105, 11,823-11,826, doi: 10.1073/pnas.0802891105.
17. Kitzberger, T., P. M. Brown, E. K. Heyerdahl, T. W. Swetnam, and, T. T. Veblen, (2007), Contingent Pacific-Atlantic Ocean influence on multicentury wildfire synchrony over western North America, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A., 104, 543-548, doi: 10.1073/pnas.0606078104.
18. Littell, J. S., D. McKenzie, D. L. Peterson, and, A. L. Westerling, (2009), Climate and wildfire area burned in western U. S. ecoprovinces, 1916-2003, Ecol. Appl., 19, 1003-1021, doi: 10.1890/07-1183.1.
19. Marlon, J. R., et al., (2008), Climate and human influences on global biomass burning over the past two millennia, Nature Geoscience, 1, 697-702.
20. McCabe, G. J., M. A. Palecki, and, J. L. Betancourt, (2004), Pacific and Atlantic ocean influences on multidecadal drought frequency in the United States, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A., 101, 4136-4141, doi: 10.1073/pnas.0306738101.
21. Mooney, C. Z., and, R. D. Duval, (1993), Bootstrapping: a Non-parametric Approach to Statistical Inference, Sage, Newbury Park, Calif.
22. Swetnam, T. W., (1993), Fire history and climate-change in giant sequoia groves, Science, 262, 885-889, doi: 10.1126/science.262.5135.885.
23. Swetnam, T. W., and, R. S. Anderson, (2008), Fire climatology in the western United States: Introduction to special issue, Int. J. Wildland Fire, 17, 1-7, doi: 10.1071/WF08016.
24. Swetnam, T. W., and, J. L. Betancourt, (1990), Fire-Southern Oscillation relations in the southwestern United-States, Science, 249, 1017-1020, doi: 10.1126/science.249.4972.1017.
25. Swetnam, T. W., and, J. L. Betancourt, (1998), Mesoscale disturbance and ecological response to decadal climatic variability in the American Southwest, J. Clim., 11, 3128-3147, doi: 10.1175/1520-0442(1998)011<3128:MDAERT>2.0.CO;2.
26. Taylor, A. H., and, R. M. Beaty, (2005), Climatic influences on fire regimes in the northern Sierra Nevada mountains, Lake Tahoe Basin, Nevada, USA, J. Biogeogr., 32, 425-438, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2004.01208.x.
27. Taylor, A. H., C. N. Skinner, A. M. Carleton, and, S. L. Stephens, (2007), Fire climate interactions and predicting fire season severity in the Mediterranean climate areas of California, southern Oregon, and western Nevada, Rep. 03-1-1-22, Joint Fire Sci. Program, Boise, Idaho.
28. Taylor, A. H., V. Trouet, and, C. N. Skinner, (2008), Climatic influences on fire regimes in montane forests of the southern Cascades, California, USA, Int. J. Wildland Fire, 17, 60-71, doi: 10.1071/WF07033.
29. Trouet, V., A. H. Taylor, A. M. Carleton, and, C. N. Skinner, (2006), Fire-climate interactions in forests of the American Pacific coast, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L18704, doi: 10.1029/2006GL027502.
30. Trouet, V., et al., (2009 a), Persistent positive North Atlantic Oscillation Mode dominated the Medieval Climate Anomaly, Science, 324, 78-80, doi: 10.1126/science.1166349.
31. Trouet, V., A. Taylor, A. Carleton, and, C. Skinner, (2009 b), Interannual variations in fire weather, fire extent, and synoptic-scale circulation patterns in northern California and Oregon, Theor. Appl. Climatol., 95, 349-360, doi: 10.1007/s00704-008-0012-x.
32. van Oldenborgh, G. J., and, G. Burgers, (2005), Searching for decadal variations in ENSO precipitation teleconnections, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L15701, doi: 10.1029/2005GL023110.
33. Veblen, T. T., T. Kitzberger, and, J. Donnegan, (2000), Climatic and human influences on fire regimes in ponderosa pine forests in the Colorado Front Range, Ecol. Appl., 10, 1178-1195, doi: 10.1890/1051-0761(2000)010[1178:CAHIOF]2.0.CO;2.
34. Westerling, A. L., and, T. W. Swetnam, (2003), Interannual to decadal drought and wildfire in the western United States, Eos Trans. AGU, 84, 545-560, doi: 10.1029/2003EO490001.
35. Westerling, A. L., H. G. Hidalgo, D. R. Cayan, and, T. W. Swetnam, (2006), Warming and earlier spring increase western US forest wildfire activity, Science, 313, 940-943, doi: 10.1126/science.1128834.