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Assessing climate change impacts on live fuel moisture and wildfire risk using a hydrodynamic vegetation model
Wu Ma
Earth and Environmental Sciences Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Lu Zhai
Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, United States
Alexandria Pivovaroff
Atmospheric Science and Global Change Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Jacquelyn Shuman
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate and Global Dynamics, Terrestrial Sciences Section, Boulder, CO, United States
Polly Buotte
Energy and Resources Group, University of California, Berkeley, CA, United States
Junyan Ding
Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
Bradley Christoffersen
Department of Biology, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg, TX, United States
Ryan Knox
Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
Max Moritz
UC ANR Cooperative Extension, Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Rosie A. Fisher
Centre Européen de Recherche et de Formation Avancée en Calcul Scientifique, Toulouse, France
Charles D. Koven
Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
Lara Kueppers
Energy and Resources Group, University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
Chonggang Xu
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Earth and Environmental Sciences Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
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We use a hydrodynamic demographic vegetation model to estimate live fuel moisture dynamics of chaparral shrubs, a dominant vegetation type in fire-prone southern California. Our results suggest that multivariate climate change could cause a significant net reduction in live fuel moisture and thus exacerbate future wildfire danger in chaparral shrub systems.
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