A. L. Westerling

13.5k citations
60 papers · 10.1k indexed · 4 hit papers · h-index 36

Impact in

Papers in

    • Fire effects on ecosystems 52
    • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics 25
    • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics 12
    • Tree-ring climate responses 6
    • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols 5

A. L. Westerling

58 papers receiving 9.5k citations

Hit Papers

Increasing western US forest wildfire activity: sensitivity to changes in the timing of spring 2016 · 938 citations
938200620262012201910002.0k3.0k

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A. L. Westerling
Comparison fields: 5 of 145
  • Global and Planetary Change 8.8k
  • Atmospheric Science 2.7k
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation 1.8k
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 1.6k
  • Ecology 3.1k
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Co-authors

The 25 scholars most cited alongside A. L. Westerling, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
#Work
1 20254
2 20230
3 20233
4 20222
5 201990
6 201968
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Simulating high spatial resolution high severity burned area in Sierra Nevada forests for California Spotted Owl habitat climate change risk assessment and management.
20172
8 2017125
9 201744
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Increasing western US forest wildfire activity: sensitivity to changes in the timing of spring
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2016938
11 201491
12 201340
13 2011168
14 201166
15 20081
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Reevaluation of the spring onset/fire association in the western U.S. using Phenological vs. Hydrological Models
20071
17
Warming and Earlier Spring Increase Western U.S. Forest Wildfire Activity
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20063958
18
A Long Term Perspective on Decadal Variability in Climate and Wildfire in the Western United States
20041
19 2004135
20 2003432

About A. L. Westerling

A. L. Westerling is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and Ecological Modeling, having authored 60 papers that have together received 10.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Fire effects on ecosystems (52 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (25 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (12 papers), Rangeland and Wildlife Management (10 papers), Landslides and related hazards (8 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (7 papers), Tree-ring climate responses (6 papers) and Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (5 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Global and Planetary Change (8.8k citations), Atmospheric Science (2.7k citations), Nature and Landscape Conservation (1.8k citations), Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (1.6k citations) and Ecology (3.1k citations). A. L. Westerling has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Germany and Australia. Frequent co-authors include Daniel R. Cayan, Thomas W. Swetnam, Hugo G. Hidalgo, Benjamin P. Bryant, Jeremy S. Littell, Donald McKenzie, David L. Peterson, Matthew D. Hurteau, Alexander Gershunov and Monica G. Turner. Their work appears in journals such as Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, Environmental Research Letters, Environmental Science & Technology, Global Change Biology and Climatic Change.

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