Standout Papers

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  1. Impact of anthropogenic climate change on wildfire across western US forests (2016)
    John T. Abatzoglou, Park Williams Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  2. Temperature as a potent driver of regional forest drought stress and tree mortality (2012)
    Park Williams, Craig D. Allen et al. Nature Climate Change
  3. Pervasive drought legacies in forest ecosystems and their implications for carbon cycle models (2015)
    William R. L. Anderegg, Christopher R. Schwalm et al. Science
  4. Observed Impacts of Anthropogenic Climate Change on Wildfire in California (2019)
    Park Williams, John T. Abatzoglou et al. Earth s Future
  5. Twenty‐First Century Drought Projections in the CMIP6 Forcing Scenarios (2020)
    Benjamin I. Cook, Justin Mankin et al. Earth s Future
  6. Large contribution from anthropogenic warming to an emerging North American megadrought (2020)
    Park Williams, Edward R. Cook et al. Science
  7. Land–atmosphere feedbacks exacerbate concurrent soil drought and atmospheric aridity (2019)
    Sha Zhou, Park Williams et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  8. Contribution of anthropogenic warming to California drought during 2012–2014 (2015)
    Park Williams, Richard Seager et al. Geophysical Research Letters
  9. Climate change is increasing the likelihood of extreme autumn wildfire conditions across California (2020)
    Michael Goss, Daniel L. Swain et al. Environmental Research Letters
  10. Rapid intensification of the emerging southwestern North American megadrought in 2020–2021 (2022)
    Park Williams, Benjamin I. Cook et al. Nature Climate Change
  11. Global Emergence of Anthropogenic Climate Change in Fire Weather Indices (2018)
    John T. Abatzoglou, Park Williams et al. Geophysical Research Letters
  12. Global field observations of tree die-off reveal hotter-drought fingerprint for Earth’s forests (2022)
    William M. Hammond, Park Williams et al. Nature Communications
  13. Projected increases in intensity, frequency, and terrestrial carbon costs of compound drought and aridity events (2019)
    Sha Zhou, Yao Zhang et al. Science Advances
  14. Soil moisture–atmosphere feedbacks mitigate declining water availability in drylands (2021)
    Sha Zhou, Park Williams et al. Nature Climate Change
  15. Projected increases in western US forest fire despite growing fuel constraints (2021)
    John T. Abatzoglou, David S. Battisti et al. Communications Earth & Environment
  16. Climate change will accelerate the high-end risk of compound drought and heatwave events (2023)
    Kumar Puran Tripathy, Sourav Mukherjee et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  17. Warming weakens the night-time barrier to global fire (2022)
    Jennifer K. Balch, John T. Abatzoglou et al. Nature
  18. The impacts of rising vapour pressure deficit in natural and managed ecosystems (2024)
    Kimberly A. Novick, Darren L. Ficklin et al. Plant Cell & Environment

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Park Williams 13647 6214 3315 158 17.2k
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Benjamin Poulter 11853 4950 4616 216 16.2k
Richard Betts 14973 6892 3754 160 22.6k
Julio L. Betancourt 8517 6295 4740 149 16.7k
Timothy J. Osborn 16677 14277 2270 170 22.8k
Michael L. Goulden 14419 5447 6105 182 19.3k
Benjamin I. Cook 10149 6058 2378 183 15.0k
Benjamin Smith 12605 5392 5227 189 19.5k
Martin Beniston 7073 7178 1808 161 13.0k
David L. Peterson 9660 3677 5795 275 14.6k

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