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Published Online July 6, 2006
Science DOI: 10.1126/science.1130370

Perspectives

Submitted on June 8, 2006
Accepted on June 28, 2006

Is Global Warming Causing More, Larger Wildfires?

Steven W. Running 1*

1 Numerical Terradynamic Simulation Group, University of Montana, Missoula, MT 59812, USA.

* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
Steven W. Running , E-mail: swr{at}ntsg.umt.edu

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


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