PNNL

Abstract

Significant changes in forest fires have occurred in recent decades in the global boreal (high latitude) forest, but the effects of changing climate and disturbance on evapotranspiration (ET) and forest water cycling more generally are not well understood. In a previous study [@Bond-Lamberty2009-py], we examined the _hydrological_ implications of wildfire regime shifts [@Nolan2014-us]. How reproducible are the results reported in Bond-Lamberty et al. [-@Bond-Lamberty2009-py]? The article manuscript was written in 2007-2008, initially submitted in April 2008, and a final, revised version was submitted in October of that year. The system timestamp on the script output file is 2008-03-16. The methods section says that R 2.6.0, which was released on 2007-10-03, was used for all analyses. The source code was not publicly archived, but retained in the lead author's personal records; it has no license. The original hardware would have been an Apple laptop (probably a 2006-2007 MacBook Pro). As noted above, the code file was archived by the lead author, and so was easy for him (but no one else) to find. The code has no comments or instructions.