In this Section:

	Background
	Project Overview
	Project Components:
	Fire History & Climate
	Fire Management & Policy
	Fire-Climate Workshops
	References
	Related Links
	Contacts

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Interested in fire and climate? More information is available on the National Seasonal Assessment Workshops (NSAW).

Research and Products:
Fire Research

References

Fire History and Climate

Westerling, A. L., Hidalgo, H. G., Cayan, D. R., and T. W. Swetnam. 2006. Warming and Earlier Spring Increase Western U.S. Forest Wildfire Activity. Science 313 (5789): 940-943.

Fire Management and Policy

Brown, T., G. Garfin, M. Lenart, and H. Hockenberry, 2005: Significant Fire Potential Outlook 2005. Proceedings EastFIRE Conference, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, May 11-13, 2005, 4 pp.

Brown, T.J., A.G. Barnston, J.O. Roads, R. Tinker, and K.E. Wolter. 2002. 2002 Seasonal Consensus Climate Forecasts for Wildland Fire Management. Experimental Long-Lead Forecast Bulletin, Vol. 11, 4 pp.

Morehouse, B.J. (ed.). 2000. The Implications Of La Niña And El Niño For Fire Management. Workshop proceedings, Institute for the Study of Planet Earth, Tucson, AZ. February 23–24, 2000.

Morehouse, B., G. Christopherson, M. Crimmins, B. Orr, J. Overpeck, T. Swetnam, and S. Yool. 2006. Modeling interactions among wildland fire, climate and society in the context of climatic variability and change in the Southwest US. In M. Ruth, K. Donaghy and P. Kirshen (eds.), Regional Climate Change and Variability: Impacts and Responses. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Eagar, pp. 58-78.

USDA Forest Service. 2003. National Fire Plan Research & Development: 2002 Business Summary. United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service Miscellaneous Publication 1588.

Fire-Climate Workshop

Crawford, B., G. Garfin., R. Ochoa, R. Heffernan, T. Wordell, T. Brown, 2006. National Seasonal Assessment Workshops: Western States and Alaska, Boulder, CO, April 4-7, 2006, and Eastern, Southern, and Southwestern States, Shepherdstown, WV, January 17-20, 2006. Final Report. CLIMAS/ISPE, Tucson, 42 pp.

Garfin, G., M. Lenart, T. Brown, R. Ochoa, H. Hockenberry. 2005. Fire Season Could Mean Double Trouble for West. Wildfire, May 1, 2005.

Garfin, G.M., T. Brown, R. Ochoa, and H. Hockenberry. 2004. National Seasonal Assessment Workshop: Eastern and Southern States Meeting, Shepherdstown, WV. January 27-29, 2004. Final report. CLIMAS/ISPE, Tucson, 18 pp.

Garfin, G.M., T. Wordell, T. Brown, R. Ochoa, and B. Morehouse. 2003. The 2003 National Seasonal Assessment Workshop: A Proactive Approach to Preseason Fire Danger Assessment. Proceedings of the Fifth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology, Orlando, FL, November 16–20, 2003. Extended Abstract J9.12. Boston, American Meteorological Society, 7 pp.

Garfin, G.M., and B.J. Morehouse. 2001. Facilitating use of climate information for wildfire decision-making in the U.S. Southwest. Proceedings of the Fourth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology, 13-15 November 2001, Reno, Nevada. Extended Abstract 4.10. Boston, American Meteorological Society, 7 pp.

Garfin, G.M., and B.J. Morehouse (eds.). 2001. Proceedings, 2001 Fire & Climate Workshops, February 14-16, 2001 and March 28, 2001, Tucson, Arizona. Institute for the Study of Planet Earth.

Lenart, M., T. Brown, R. Ochoa, H. Hockenberry, G. Garfin. 2005. National Seasonal Assessment Workshop: Western States and Alaska, Boulder, CO, March 28-April 1, 2005. Final report. CLIMAS/ISPE, Tucson, 29 pp.

Fire-Climate Workshop Proceedings

For a complete list of workshop summaries, fire-climate outlooks, and workshop proceedings, visit http://www.climas.arizona.edu/research/fire/workshop_proceedings.html.