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Publication Datesort ascending Title Contact Institution
10/2021 Ohm’s Law for Biogeochemical Modeling Riley, William J. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
04/2021 Research Priorities for Studying Ecological Impacts of Geoengineering Hoffman, Forrest M. Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
04/2021 Future Increases in Arctic Lightning and Fire Risk for Permafrost Carbon Randerson, James T. University of California - Irvine
02/2021 Changes in Precipitation and Air Temperature Contribute Comparably to Permafrost Degradation in a Warmer Climate Riley, William J. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
08/2020 Geoengineering Increases the Global Land Carbon Sink Hoffman, Forrest M. Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
06/2020 Projected Changes in the Terrestrial and Oceanic Regulators of Climate Variability Across Sub-Saharan Africa Notaro, Michael University of Wisconsin Madison
04/2020 Three Grand Challenges for Land Surface Models Koven, Charles D. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)
03/2020 The Central Amazon Biomass Sink Under Current and Future Atmospheric CO2: Predictions From Big-Leaf and Demographic Vegetation Models Riley, William J. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)
02/2020 Urban warming advances spring phenology but reduces the response of phenology to temperature in the conterminous United States Mao, Jiafu Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
12/2019 Machine Learning Produces Unprecedented High-Resolution Map of Global Soil Respiration Bond-Lamberty, Ben Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
11/2019 How Floods Start and Their Recent Trends Leung, Ruby Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
10/2019 The Effects of Phosphorus Cycle Dynamics on Carbon Sources and Sinks in the Amazon Region: A Modeling Study Using ELM v1 Yang, Xiaojuan Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
08/2019 Expansion of High-Latitude Deciduous Plants Driven by Interactions Between Climate Warming and Fire Riley, William J. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)
08/2019 Streamflow in the Columbia River Basin: Quantifying Changes Over the Period 1951‐2008 and Determining the Drivers of Those Changes Mao, Jiafu Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
08/2019 Amazon Forest Responses to CO2 Fertilization Dependent on Plant Phosphorus Acquisition Fleischer, Katrin Technical University of Munich
04/2019 Predictability of Tropical Vegetation Greenness Using Sea Surface Temperatures Mao, Jiafu Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
02/2019 A First-Principle Based Theory Predicts Observed Moisture Sensitivity of Soil Heterotrophic Respiration Riley, William J. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)
01/2019 Soil Moisture Variability Intensifies and Prolongs Eastern Amazon Temperature and Carbon Cycle Response to El Niño–Southern Oscillation Randerson, James T. University of California Irvine (UC Irvine)
05/2018 Contribution of Environmental Forcings to US Runoff Changes for the Period 1950–2010 Mao, Jiafu Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
04/2018 Forest Response to Rising CO2 Drives Zonally Asymmetric Rainfall Change Over Tropical Land Kooperman, Dr. Gabriel University of Georgia
03/2018 Design of Measurement Networks for Predictive Uncertainty Reduction Lu, Dan Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
01/2018 Impacts of Microtopographic Snow Redistribution and Lateral Subsurface Processes on Hydrologic and Thermal States in an Arctic Polygonal Ground Ecosystem: A Case Study Using ELM-3D v1.0 Riley, William J. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)
01/2018 Predicting and Planning for Chronic Climate-Driven Disturbances Stover, Daniel DOE Terrestrial Ecosystem Science
11/2017 Modeling Stochastic Phenology in Earth System Models Goodsman, Devin Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
08/2017 Lateral Processes Dominate Control of Water Available to Tropical Forests Leung, L. Ruby Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
05/2017 Climate Mitigation from Vegetation Biophysical Feedbacks during the Past Three Decades Shi, Xiaoying Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
09/2016 Explicit Aqueous Phase Redox and pH Dynamics Added to the Converging Trophic Cascade (CTC) Decomposition Model Thornton, Peter E. Climate Change Science Institute
08/2016 Global Model Improved by Incorporating New Hypothesis for Vegetation Nutrient Limitation, Supported by Field Experiment Thornton, Peter E. Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
07/2016 Phosphorus Feedbacks Constraining Tropical Ecosystem Responses to Changes in Atmospheric CO2 and Climate Yang, Xiaojuan Climate Change Science Institute
06/2016 Human-Induced Greening of the Northern Extratropical Land Surface Mao, Jiafu Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)