Purpose of Review I sought to review the contributions of recent literature and prior
foundational papers to our understanding of drought and fire. In this review, I summarize …

Fire weather indices are one of the basic components of any fire danger early warning
system. The Canadian Fire Weather Index (FWI) was developed to indicate the danger due …

Northern Hemisphere midlatitude weather is strongly influenced by the polar jet stream
(PJS), which dictates the position of storm tracks; this influence also extends to weather …

Numerous devastating air pollution events from wildfire smoke occurred in this century in the
western USA, leading to severe environmental consequences. This study projects future fire …

The US Department of the Interior (DOI) and other government agencies (Federal, State,
local, and tribal) often must factor the potential impacts of climate change on natural …

Yakutia (Eastern Siberia) is one of the most fire-prone regions of Russia, which is frequently
affected by large-scale wildfires despite a relatively short warm period, which usually lasts …

Increasing area burned across western North America raises questions about the
precedence and magnitude of changes in fire activity, relative to the historical range of …

Fires are a growing problem even in temperate climate areas, such as those in Central Italy,
due to climate change leading to longer and longer periods of drought. Thus, knowing the …

We investigate the impact of wildfires on surface energy exchange through the assessment
of six California wildfires that occurred in the last 20 years. A burned–unburned binary mask …

Mean magnitudes and temporal trends in aerosol optical depth (AOD) from satellite
observations and an aerosol reanalysis exhibit a negative‐positive east‐northwest dipole …