SW CASC Publications
Publications
2025
Evans, M. E. K., Hu, J., & Michaletz, S. T. (2025). Scaling Plant Responses to Heat: From Molecules to the Biosphere. Science, 388(6752), 1167–1173. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adv7597
Poulsen, C. D., Clemesha, R. E. S., Howard, I. M., Gershunov, A., Dettinger, M. D., Zhang, Z., Luna-Niño, R., Stahle, D. W., & Ralph, F. M. (2025). The 1991 California ‘Miracle March’: Precipitation Myth or Miracle? Environmental Research Communications, 7(5), 051004. https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7620/add3cc
He, Q., Williams, A. P., Johnston, M. R., Juang, C. S., & Wang, B. (2025). Influence of Time‐Averaging of Climate Data on Estimates of Atmospheric Vapor Pressure Deficit and Inferred Relationships With Wildfire Area in the Western United States. Geophysical Research Letters, 52(7).
Das, A. J., Rosenthal, L. M., & Shive, K. L. (2025). The effectiveness of wildfire at meeting restoration goals across a fire severity gradient in the Sierra Nevada. Forest Ecology and Management, 580, 122486.
McFarland, J. R., Coop, J. D., Balik, J. A., Rodman, K. C., Parks, S. A., & Stevens‐Rumann, C. S. (2025). Extreme Fire Spread Events Burn More Severely and Homogenize Postfire Landscapes in the Southwestern United States. Global Change Biology, 31(2), e70106. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70106
Luna-Niño, R., Gershunov, A., Ralph, F. M., Weyant, A., Guirguis, K., DeFlorio, M. J., Cayan, D. R., & Williams, A. P. (2025). Heresy in ENSO Teleconnections: Atmospheric Rivers as Disruptors of Canonical Seasonal Precipitation Anomalies in the Southwestern US. Climate Dynamics, 63(2), 115. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-025-07583-1
Petrie, M. D., Hubbard, R. M., Bradford, J. B., Kolb, T. E., Noel, A., Schlaepfer, D. R., Bowen, M. A., Fuller, L. R., & Moser, W. K. (2025). Management and Natural Regeneration in Multiple Ponderosa Pine Forests of the Southwestern United States. Forest Science, 71, 203–230. https://doi.org/10.1007/s44391-025-00013-z
Eppehimer, D., Yackulic, C., Bruckerhoff, L., Wang, J., Young, K., Bestgen, K., Mihalevich, B., & Schmidt, J. (2025). Declining reservoir elevations following a two-decade drought increase water temperatures and non-native fish passage facilitating a downstream invasion. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 82, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-2024-0187
Margolis, E., Wion, A., Abatzoglou, J., Daniels, L., Falk, D., Guiterman, C., Johnston, J., Kipfmueller, K., Lafon, C., Loehman, R., Lonergan, M., Naficy, C., Parisien, M., Parks, S., Portier, J., Stambaugh, M., Whitman, E., Williams, A. P., & Yocom, L. (2025). Spatiotemporal Synchrony of Climate and Fire Occurrence Across North American Forests (1750–1880). Global Ecology and Biogeography, 34(1).
2024
Franklin, J., & MacDonald, G. M. (2024). Climate Change and California Sustainability—Challenges and Solutions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(32), e2405458121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2405458121
Guirguis, K., Hatchett, B., Gershunov, A., DeFlorio, M., Clemesha, R., Brandt, W. T., Haleakala, K., Castellano, C., Luna Niño, R., Tardy, A., Anderson, M., & Ralph, F. M. (2024). Reinterpreting ENSO’s Role in Modulating Impactful Precipitation Events in California. Geophysical Research Letters, 51(14), e2024GL110326. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL110326
Guirguis, K., Hatchett, B., Gershunov, A., DeFlorio, M., Clemesha, R., Brandt, W. T., Haleakala, K., Castellano, C., Luna Niño, R., Tardy, A., Anderson, M., & Ralph, F. M. (2024). Reinterpreting ENSO’s Role in Modulating Impactful Precipitation Events in California. Geophysical Research Letters, 51(14).
Thorne, K. M., MacDonald, G. M., Chavez, F. P., Ambrose, R. F., & Barnard, P. L. (2024). Significant challenges to the sustainability of the California coast considering climate change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(32).
Russell, A., Fontana, N., Hoecker, T., Kamanu, A., Majumder, R., Stephens, J., Young, A. M., Cravens, A. E., Giardina, C., Hiers, K., Littell, J., & Terando, A. (2024). A fire-use decision model to improve the United States’ wildfire management and support climate change adaptation. Cell Reports Sustainability, 100125.
Williams, A. P., McKinnon, K. A., Anchukaitis, K. J., Gershunov, A., Varuolo‐Clarke, A. M., Clemesha, R. E. S., & Liu, H. (2024). Anthropogenic Intensification of Cool‐Season Precipitation Is Not Yet Detectable Across the Western United States. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 129(12), e2023JD040537. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JD040537