Title:

Fire and climate data for western Bailey’s ecosections, USA

Author(s):

McKenzie, Donald

Publication Year:

2016

How to Cite:

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McKenzie, Donald. 2016. Fire and climate data for western Bailey’s ecosections, USA. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2016-0018

Abstract:

The relationship between climate and wildfire area burned suggests how fire regimes may respond to a changing climate. This West-wide data publication contains a 27-year record (1980-2006) of climatological variables used to develop statistical models of area burned that can be projected into the future. We provide a separate file for each of the 56 Bailey’s ecosections (Bailey 2016) across the West, with annual area burned and 112 climate predictor variables such as evapotranspiration, precipitation, relative humidity, soil moisture, snow-water equivalent, minimum and maximum temperature, and vapor pressure deficit. These historical and future hydroclimate projections and historical fire area burned data were derived for McKenzie and Littell (2016).

Keywords:

fire climatology; water-balance deficit; non-stationarity; multi-scale analysis; Climate change; Climate change effects; Fire; Fire ecology; Ecology, Ecosystems, & Environment; Landscape ecology; biota; climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere; geoscientificInformation; Arizona; California; Colorado; Idaho; Montana; Nebraska; Nevada; New Mexico; North Dakota; Oklahoma; Oregon; South Dakota; Texas; Utah; Washington

Related publications:

• McKenzie, Donald; Littell, Jeremy S. 2016. Climate change and the eco-hydrology of fire: will area burned increase in a warming western U.S.?. Ecological Applications. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.1420
• Bailey, Robert G. 2016. Bailey's ecoregions and subregions of the United States, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2016-0003
• Mauger, Guillaume; Stumbaugh, Matt; Dotson, Bri. 2014. Western US Hydroclimate Scenarios Project Datasets. Fort Collins, CO: USGS ScienceBase. https://doi.org/10.5066/F7KS6PMF

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