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Originally published in Science Express on 6 July 2006
Science 18 August 2006:
Vol. 313. no. 5789, pp. 927 - 928
DOI: 10.1126/science.1130370
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CLIMATE CHANGE:
Is Global Warming Causing More, Larger Wildfires?

Steven W. Running

Higher spring and summer temperatures and earlier snowmelt are extending the wildfire season and increasing the intensity of wildfires in the western United States.

The author is with the Numerical Terradynamic Simulation Group, University of Montana, Missoula, MT 59812, USA. E-mail: swr{at}ntsg.umt.edu

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