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Park Williams @peedublya

Bioclimatologist interested in the causes and consequences of drought. Associate professor UCLA.

Joined June 2015
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UCLA Geography is hiring! Assistant Professor in the general area of "Environmental Challenges". If you're a physical scientist wanting to research and teach on policy-relevant environmental issues please apply: recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF0970…

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If you're going to @theAGU this year and work on western US climate & water please consider submitting to our session: A094 - Hydroclimate and Extremes in the Western United States in a Changing Climate agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/mee…

Hydroclimate and Extremes in the Western United States in a Changing Climate II Poster

The western United States is particularly susceptible to adverse impacts from a wide range of hydroclimate events including droughts, floods, heat waves, fire weather extremes, and compounding...

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Jatan Buch@JBuch7
12 Sep 2023
As we head into Fall, I wanted to share results from my paper (w/ stellar colleagues @peedublya, @caro_in_space, Winslow Hansen, and @PierreGentine) gmd.copernicus.org/articles/… introducing a stochastic machine learning model for wildfires in the western US (WUS). A mini-🧵:

SMLFire1.0: a stochastic machine learning (SML) model for wildfire activity in the western United...

Abstract. The annual area burned due to wildfires in the western United States (WUS) increased by more than 300 % between 1984 and 2020. However, accounting for the nonlinear, spatially heterogeneous...

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Here in the Department of Geography @UCLA we're searching for a new colleague at the Assistant Professor level who works on anything under the big umbrella of Physical Geography. Ad below. Please help me distribute widely: recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF0798…

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John Abatzoglou@climate_guy
24 Oct 2022
Openings for PhD students and postdoc/project scientists to work on climate science and climate impacts in my group @ucmerced climatologylab.org/openings.…
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Sha Zhou@zhou_sha
30 Sep 2022
Very excited to share our paper published at @NatureComms today! @peedublya @PierreGentine @trevorkeenan @zhangyaonju nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
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Robert Jnglin Wills@ClimateAnomaly
19 Sep 2022
Sea-surface temperature (SST) trends over the last ~40 years show an unusual pattern, with cooling in the SE Pacific & Southern Ocean, despite ongoing global warming. In a recently published paper, we investigate if climate model large ensembles (LEs) can simulate this pattern.
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1/ With August now over, the ongoing soil-moisture drought in southwestern North America has now, at 23 years old and counting, matched the duration, and probably exceeded the severity, of the “megadrought” that struck the region from 1571–1593.
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10/ The exact magnitude of the human-caused contribution is highly uncertain, mostly due to model disagreement on precipitation trends. Here, grey lines show how our calculation of the human-caused climate change trend would differ if we considered any single climate model.
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11/11 This thread is an update a study published with Ben Cook (@DustyBowl) and Jason Smerdon from @LamontEarth earlier this year (doi.org/10.1038/s41558-022-0…), which was itself an update of a study we published with other friends in 2020 (doi.org/10.1126/science.aaz9…).

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John Abatzoglou@climate_guy
2 Sep 2022
With the labor day weekend here oppressive heat coinciding with the apex of summer drying, fire danger is high across much of the West climatetoolbox.org/tool/clim… In addition to weather/fuels facilitators of fire, the human dimension of ignitions during the holiday 1/6
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