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• Investigating the response of leaf area index to droughts in southern African vegetation using observations and model simulations.

  Authors:Shakirudeen Lawal, Stephen Sitch, Danica Lombardozzi, Julia E. M. S. Nabel, Hao-Wei Wey, Pierre Friedlingstein, et al.From:Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (Vol. 26, Issue 8) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 27, 2022466 words Article In many regions of the world, frequent and continual dry spells are exacerbating drought conditions, which have severe impacts on vegetation biomes. Vegetation in southern Africa is among the most affected by drought....

• Global Carbon Budget 2021.

  Authors:Pierre Friedlingstein, Matthew W. Jones, Michael O'Sullivan, Robbie M. Andrew, Dorothee C. E. Bakker, Judith Hauck, et al.From:Earth System Science Data (Vol. 14, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 26, 2022550 words Article Accurate assessment of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO.sub.2) emissions and their redistribution among the atmosphere, ocean, and terrestrial biosphere in a changing climate is critical to better understand the global...

• Divergent historical GPP trends among state-of-the-art multi-model simulations and satellite-based products.

  Authors:Ruqi Yang, Jun Wang, Ning Zeng, Stephen Sitch, Wenhan Tang, Matthew Joseph McGrath, et al.From:Earth System Dynamics (Vol. 13, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 19, 2022436 words Article Understanding historical changes in gross primary productivity (GPP) is essential for better predicting the future global carbon cycle. However, the historical trends of terrestrial GPP, due to the CO.sub.2 fertilization...

• Comparing national greenhouse gas budgets reported in UNFCCC inventories against atmospheric inversions.

  Authors:Zhu Deng, Philippe Ciais, Zitely A. Tzompa-Sosa, Marielle Saunois, Chunjing Qiu, Chang Tan, et al.From:Earth System Science Data (Vol. 14, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 11, 2022562 words Article In support of the global stocktake of the Paris Agreement on climate change, this study presents a comprehensive framework to process the results of an ensemble of atmospheric inversions in order to make their net...

• VODCA2GPP - a new, global, long-term (1988-2020) gross primary production dataset from microwave remote sensing.

  Authors:Benjamin Wild, Irene Teubner, Leander Moesinger, Ruxandra-Maria Zotta, Matthias Forkel, Robin van der Schalie, et al.From:Earth System Science Data (Vol. 14, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 10, 2022420 words Article Long-term global monitoring of terrestrial gross primary production (GPP) is crucial for assessing ecosystem responses to global climate change. In recent decades, great advances have been made in estimating GPP and many...

• Assessing the representation of the Australian carbon cycle in global vegetation models.

  Authors:Lina Teckentrup, Martin G. De Kauwe, Andrew J. Pitman, Daniel S. Goll, Vanessa Haverd, Atul K. Jain, et al.From:Biogeosciences (Vol. 18, Issue 20) Peer-Reviewed

  Oct. 20, 2021461 words Article Australia plays an important role in the global terrestrial carbon cycle on inter-annual timescales. While the Australian continent is included in global assessments of the carbon cycle such as the global carbon budget,...

• Vulnerability of European ecosystems to two compound dry and hot summers in 2018 and 2019.

  Authors:Ana Bastos, René Orth, Markus Reichstein, Philippe Ciais, Nicolas Viovy, Sönke Zaehle, et al.From:Earth System Dynamics (Vol. 12, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Oct. 15, 2021475 words Article In 2018 and 2019, central Europe was affected by two consecutive extreme dry and hot summers (DH18 and DH19). The DH18 event had severe impacts on ecosystems and likely affected vegetation activity in the subsequent...

• Slowdown of the greening trend in natural vegetation with further rise in atmospheric CO.sub.2.

  Authors:Alexander J. Winkler, Ranga B. Myneni, Alexis Hannart, Stephen Sitch, Vanessa Haverd, Danica Lombardozzi, et al.From:Biogeosciences (Vol. 18, Issue 17) Peer-Reviewed

  Sept. 13, 2021358 words Brief article Satellite data reveal widespread changes in Earth's vegetation cover. Regions intensively attended to by humans are mostly greening due to land management. Natural vegetation, on the other hand, is exhibiting patterns of...

• Land-use harmonization datasets for annual global carbon budgets.

  Authors:Louise Chini, George Hurtt, Ritvik Sahajpal, Steve Frolking, Kees Klein Goldewijk, Stephen Sitch, et al.From:Earth System Science Data (Vol. 13, Issue 8) Peer-Reviewed

  Aug. 26, 2021435 words Article Land-use change has been the dominant source of anthropogenic carbon emissions for most of the historical period and is currently one of the largest and most uncertain components of the global carbon cycle. Advancing the...

• The Fire Modeling Intercomparison Project (FireMIP), phase 1: experimental and analytical protocols with detailed model descriptions

  Authors:Sam S. Rabin, Joe R. Melton, Gitta Lasslop, Dominique Bachelet, Matthew Forrest, Stijn Hantson, et al.From:Geoscientific Model Development (Vol. 10, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 17, 2017288 words Author abstract, Bri... The important role of fire in regulating vegetation community composition and contributions to emissions of greenhouse gases and aerosols make it a critical component of dynamic global vegetation models and Earth system...

• Global Carbon Budget 2018

  Authors:Corinne Le Quere, Robbie M. Andrew, Pierre Friedlingstein, Stephen Sitch, Judith Hauck, Julia Pongratz, et al.From:Earth System Science Data (Vol. 10, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Dec. 5, 2018519 words Author abstract, Bri...

  Accurate assessment of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO.sub.2) emissions and their redistribution among the atmosphere, ocean, and terrestrial biosphere - the "global carbon budget" - is important to better...

• Compensatory water effects link yearly global land CO2 sink changes to temperature

  Authors:Martin Jung, Markus Reichstein, Christopher R. Schwalm, Chris Huntingford, Stephen Sitch, Anders Ahlstrm, et al.From:Nature (Vol. 541, Issue 7638) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 26, 20177,379 words Report 1670LAuthor(s): Martin Jung (corresponding author) [1]; Markus Reichstein [1, 2]; Christopher R. Schwalm [3]; Chris Huntingford [4]; Stephen Sitch [5]; Anders Ahlstrm [6, 7]; Almut Arneth [8]; Gustau Camps-Valls [9];...

• JULES-CN: a coupled terrestrial carbon-nitrogen scheme (JULES vn5.1).

  Authors:Andrew J. Wiltshire, Eleanor J. Burke, Sarah E. Chadburn, Chris D. Jones, Peter M. Cox, Taraka Davies-Barnard, et al.From:Geoscientific Model Development (Vol. 14, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 27, 2021509 words Article Understanding future changes in the terrestrial carbon cycle is important for reliable projections of climate change and impacts on ecosystems. It is well known that nitrogen (N) could limit plants' response to increased...

• Effects of changes in climate on landscape and regional processes, and feedbacks to the climate system

  Authors:Terry V. Callaghan, Brian Huntley, Nadya Matveyeva, Lars Olof Bjorn, Rolf A. Ims, Nicolai Panikov, et al.From:Ambio (Vol. 33, Issue 7) Peer-Reviewed

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• Climatic control of the high-latitude vegetation greening trend and Pinatubo effect. (Reports)

  Authors:Wolfgang Lucht, I. Colin Prentice, Ranga B. Myneni, Stephen Sitch, Pierre Friedlingstein, Wolfgang Cramer, et al.From:Science (Vol. 296, Issue 5573) Peer-Reviewed

  May 31, 20021,989 words Article A biogeochemical model of vegetation using observed climate data predicts the high northern latitude greening trend over the past two decades observed by satellites and a marked setback in this trend after the Mount...

• Regional variation in the effectiveness of methane-based and land-based climate mitigation options.

  Authors:Garry D. Hayman, Edward Comyn-Platt, Chris Huntingford, Anna B. Harper, Tom Powell, Peter M. Cox, et al.From:Earth System Dynamics (Vol. 12, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  May 5, 2021466 words Article Scenarios avoiding global warming greater than 1.5 or 2 .sup." C, as stipulated in the Paris Agreement, may require the combined mitigation of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions alongside enhancing negative emissions...

• Conversion from forests to pastures in the Colombian Amazon leads to differences in dead wood dynamics depending on land management practices

  Authors:Diego Navarrete, Stephen Sitch, Luiz E.O.C. Aragao, Lucio Pedroni, and Alvaro DuqueFrom:Journal of Environmental Management (Vol. 171) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 15, 2016437 words Article

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• Conversion from forests to pastures in the Colombian Amazon leads to differences in dead wood dynamics depending on land management practices

  Authors:Diego Navarrete, Stephen Sitch, Luiz E.O.C. Aragao, Lucio Pedroni, and Alvaro DuqueFrom:Journal of Environmental Management (Vol. 171) Peer-Reviewed

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• Evaluation of global terrestrial evapotranspiration using state-of-the-art approaches in remote sensing, machine learning and land surface modeling.

  Authors:Shufen Pan, Naiqing Pan, Hanqin Tian, Pierre Friedlingstein, Stephen Sitch, Hao Shi, et al.From:Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (Vol. 24, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 31, 2020350 words Brief article Evapotranspiration (ET) is critical in linking global water, carbon and energy cycles. However, direct measurement of global terrestrial ET is not feasible. Here, we first reviewed the basic theory and state-of-the-art...

• Impact of changes in diffuse radiation on the global land carbon sink

  Authors:Lina M. Mercado, Nicolas Bellouin, Stephen Sitch, Olivier Boucher, Chris Huntingford, Martin Wild, et al.From:Nature (Vol. 458, Issue 7241) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 23, 20094,312 words Article 1550LPlant photosynthesis tends to increase with irradiance. However, recent theoretical and observational studies have demonstrated that photosynthesis is also more efficient under diffuse light conditions (1-5). Changes in...