Akila Sampath¹, Uma Suren Bhatt¹, Peter Bieniek², Robert Ziel³, Alison S York⁴, Ms. Heidi Strader⁵, Randi Jandt⁶, Richard Thoman⁷, Brian Brettschneider⁸, Eugene M Petrescu⁹ and Peitao Peng¹⁰, (1)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (2)International Arctic Research Center, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (3)University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Fairbanks, United States, (4)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Alaska Fire Science Consortium, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (5)Predictive Services Fire Weather Program Manager, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (6)Fire Ecologist, Alaska Fire Science Consortium, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (7)National Weather Service Alaska Region, Environmental and Scientific Services Division, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (8)Postdoctoral Associate, IARC,UAF, Anchorage, AK, United States, (9)NOAA Anchorage, Anchorage, AK, United States, (10)Climate Prediction Center College Park, College Park, MD, United States