The European mountain cryosphere: a review of its current state, trends, and future challenges

M Beniston, D Farinotti, M Stoffel, LM Andreassen… - The …, 2018 - tc.copernicus.org
The mountain cryosphere of mainland Europe is recognized to have important impacts on a
range of environmental processes. In this paper, we provide an overview on the current …

Perspectives on the future of land surface models and the challenges of representing complex terrestrial systems

RA Fisher, CD Koven - Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Land surface models (LSMs) are a vital tool for understanding, projecting, and predicting the
dynamics of the land surface and its role within the Earth system, under global change …

Increase in severe and extreme soil moisture droughts for Europe under climate change

MG Grillakis - Science of the Total Environment, 2019 - Elsevier
Droughts are among the costliest natural disasters. They affect wide regions and large
numbers of people worldwide by tampering with water availability and agricultural …

Land-use emissions play a critical role in land-based mitigation for Paris climate targets

AB Harper, T Powell, PM Cox, J House… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Scenarios that limit global warming to below 2° C by 2100 assume significant land-use
change to support large-scale carbon dioxide (CO2) removal from the atmosphere by …

The Arctic carbon cycle and its response to changing climate

L Bruhwiler, FJW Parmentier, P Crill, M Leonard… - Current Climate Change …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review The Arctic has experienced the most rapid change in climate of
anywhere on Earth, and these changes are certain to drive changes in the carbon budget of …

ORCHIDEE-MICT (v8. 4.1), a land surface model for the high latitudes: model description and validation

M Guimberteau, D Zhu, F Maignan… - Geoscientific Model …, 2018 - gmd.copernicus.org
The high-latitude regions of the Northern Hemisphere are a nexus for the interaction
between land surface physical properties and their exchange of carbon and energy with the …

Simulating the thermal regime and thaw processes of ice-rich permafrost ground with the land-surface model CryoGrid 3

S Westermann, M Langer, J Boike… - Geoscientific Model …, 2016 - gmd.copernicus.org
Thawing of permafrost in a warming climate is governed by a complex interplay of different
processes of which only conductive heat transfer is taken into account in most model …

[HTML][HTML] Room for improvement: A review and evaluation of 24 soil thermal conductivity parameterization schemes commonly used in land-surface, hydrological, and …

H He, D He, J Jin, KM Smits, M Dyck, Q Wu, B Si… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Effective thermal conductivity of soils (λ eff) is a critical parameter for agriculture,
environment science, and engineering. Functions to estimate λ eff from readily available soil …

Climate policy implications of nonlinear decline of Arctic land permafrost and other cryosphere elements

D Yumashev, C Hope, K Schaefer… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Arctic feedbacks accelerate climate change through carbon releases from thawing
permafrost and higher solar absorption from reductions in the surface albedo, following loss …

[HTML][HTML] The impact of tree canopy structure on understory variation in a boreal forest

T Majasalmi, M Rautiainen - Forest ecology and management, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Information on understory composition and its relationships with the overstory tree
canopy, especially leaf area index (LAI), is crucially needed in, eg, modeling land …