Congratulate Sarah Worden on winning the AGU 2022 Conference Remote Sensing Technical Committee Student Award from the ET session, and receiving the 2021-2022 Brian L. Bosart Memorial Fund award in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences!

Link to paper with free access: Quantifying contributions of natural variability and anthropogenic forcings on increased fire weather risk over the western United States | PNAS

Media Coverage (updating): 

Climate change is now main driver of wildfire weather - Los Angeles Times (latimes.com)

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Read more about Our new study published in PNAS suggests climate changes is the main driver for increased fire weather

AGU Press release: The Congo rainforest makes its own spring rain - AGU Newsroom

Publication: Worden, S., Fu, R., Chakraborty S., Liu J., and Worden, J. (2021). Where does moisture come from over the Congo basin? Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 126(8). https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JG006024

 

Read more about Our recent study suggests the Congo rainforest makes its own spring rain (AGU Press)

Check out an EOS opinion paper led by Prof. Rong Fu entitled "Tackling Challenges of a Drier, Hotter, More Fire-Prone Future" (Tackling Challenges of a Drier, Hotter, More Fire-Prone Future - Eos).