Recent publications by NC CASC principal investigators focus on flash drought, fires (not funded by the NC CASC):

A. Hoell et al., “Lessons Learned from the 2017 Flash Drought Across the U.S. Northern Great Plains and Canadian Prairies,” Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., pp. 1–46, Sep. 2020, doi: 10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0272.1 (https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0272.1) .

N. Mietkiewicz, J. K. Balch, T. Schoennagel, S. Leyk, L. A. St. Denis, and B. A. Bradley, “In the Line of Fire: Consequences of Human-Ignited Wildfires to Homes in the U.S. (1992–2015),” Fire, vol. 3, no. 3, Art. no. 3, Sep. 2020, doi: 10.3390/fire3030050 (https://doi.org/10.3390/fire3030050) .

M. E. Cattau, C. Wessman, A. Mahood, and J. K. Balch, “Anthropogenic and lightning-started fires are becoming larger and more frequent over a longer season length in the U.S.A.,” Global Ecology and Biogeography, vol. 29, no. 4, pp. 668–681, 2020, doi: 10.1111/geb.13058 (https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13058) .

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