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<div><font face="Geneva">" ... activities such as
aggressive fire suppression will amplify disequilibrium conditions and
will likely result in increased fire severity .... The results of our
study provide insights to the pros and cons of resisting or
facilitating change in vegetation composition and fuel load in the
context of a changing climate."</font></div>
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<div>OPEN ACCESS</div>
<div>http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/11/3/035002</div
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<div><font face="Times"><i>Environmental Research Letters,</i> Volume
11, Number 3</font></div>
<div><font face="Times">Published 23 February 2016 * © 2016 IOP
Publishing Ltd</font></div>
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<div><font face="Times"><b>How will climate change affect wildland
fire severity in the western US?</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Times">Sean A Parks<font size="-2">1</font>, Carol
Miller<font size="-2">1</font>, John T Abatzoglou<font
size="-2">2</font>, Lisa M Holsinger<font size="-2">1</font>,
Marc-André Parisien<font size="-2">3</font> and Solomon Z
Dobrowski<font size="-2">4</font></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times" size="-2">1</font><font face="Times"> Aldo
Leopold Wilderness Research Institute, Rocky Mountain Research
Station, USDA Forest Service, 790 East Beckwith Ave., Missoula, MT
59801, USA</font></div>
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<font size="-2">2</font> Department of Geography, University of Idaho,
875 Perimeter Dr MS3021, Moscow, ID 83844, USA</font></div>
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<font size="-2">3</font> Northern Forestry Centre, Canadian Forest
Service, Natural Resources Canada, 5320 122nd Street, Edmonton,
Alberta T5H 3S5, Canada</font></div>
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<font size="-2">4</font> Department of Forest Management, College of
Forestry and Conservation, University of Montana, 32 Campus Drive,
Missoula, MT 59812, USA</font></div>
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"Water vapor strongly influences atmospheric dynamics and the
hydrologic cycle through latent heat transport and diabatic heating.
Water vapor is also the most abundant greenhouse gas. As the
equilibrium vapor pressure of water vapor increases rapidly with
temperature, warming (or cooling) induced by a climate forcing will be
amplified through water vapor feedback [e.g., Soden et al., 2002]. The
strength of this feedback is a key determinant of the
planet'sequilibrium climate sensitivity. Assessing and understanding
variability and change in atmospheric water vapor is hence an
important element of climate change research."<br>
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Mark C. Serreze, Andrew P. Barrett, and Julienne Stroeve. Recent
changes in tropospheric water vapor over the Arctic as assessed from
radiosondes and atmospheric reanalyses.<i> JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL
RESEARCH</i>, VOL. 117, D10104,</font><font face="Verdana" size="-1"
color="#2E0068"> doi:10.1029/2011JD017421</font><font face="Verdana"
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