caa a22 4500 469037725 CHVBK 20180323132800.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19920901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00143342 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00143342 Climate change in Yellowstone National Park: Is the drought-related risk of wildfires increasing? [Elektronische Daten] [Robert Balling Jr., Grant Meyer, Stephen Wells] The increased frequency of wildfires in the United States has become a common prediction associated with the build-up of greenhouse gases. In this investigation, variations in annual wildfire data in Yellowstone National Park are compared to variations in historical climate conditions for the area. Univariate and multivariate analytical techniques reveal that (a) summer temperatures in the Park are increasing, (b) January-June precipitation levels are decreasing, and (c) variations in burn area within the Park are significantly related to the observed variations in climate. Outputs from four different general circulation model simulations for 2 × CO2 are included in the analyses; model predictions for increasing aridity in the Yellowstone Park area are generally in agreement with observed trends in the historical climate records. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992 Balling Jr. Robert Office of Climatology and Department of Geography, Arizona State University, 85287, Tempe, AZ, U.S.A. aut Meyer Grant Department of Geology, University of New Mexico, 87131, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A. aut Wells Stephen Department of Earth Sciences, University of California-Riverside, 92521, Riverside, CA, U.S.A. aut Climatic Change Kluwer Academic Publishers 22/1(1992-09-01), 35-45 0165-0009 22:1<35 1992 22 10584 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00143342 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00143342 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Balling Jr Robert Office of Climatology and Department of Geography, Arizona State University, 85287, Tempe, AZ, U.S.A aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Meyer Grant Department of Geology, University of New Mexico, 87131, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Wells Stephen Department of Earth Sciences, University of California-Riverside, 92521, Riverside, CA, U.S.A aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Climatic Change Kluwer Academic Publishers 22/1(1992-09-01), 35-45 0165-0009 22:1<35 1992 22 10584 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer