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 …

[HTML][HTML] Advances in land surface modelling

EM Blyth, VK Arora, DB Clark, SJ Dadson… - Current Climate Change …, 2021 - Springer
Land surface models have an increasing scope. Initially designed to capture the feedbacks
between the land and the atmosphere as part of weather and climate prediction, they are …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-decadal increase of forest burned area in Australia is linked to climate change

JG Canadell, CP Meyer, GD Cook, A Dowdy… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Fire activity in Australia is strongly affected by high inter-annual climate variability and
extremes. Through changes in the climate, anthropogenic climate change has the potential …

Global human-made mass exceeds all living biomass

E Elhacham, L Ben-Uri, J Grozovski, YM Bar-On, R Milo - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Humanity has become a dominant force in shaping the face of Earth 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.
An emerging question is how the overall material output of human activities compares to the …

[HTML][HTML] Global carbon budget 2021

P Friedlingstein, MW Jones, M O'Sullivan… - Earth System …, 2022 - essd.copernicus.org
Accurate assessment of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO 2) emissions and their
redistribution among the atmosphere, ocean, and terrestrial biosphere in a changing climate …

Recent global decline of CO2 fertilization effects on vegetation photosynthesis

S Wang, Y Zhang, W Ju, JM Chen, P Ciais, A Cescatti… - Science, 2020 - science.org
The enhanced vegetation productivity driven by increased concentrations of carbon dioxide
(CO2)[ie, the CO2 fertilization effect (CFE)] sustains an important negative feedback on …

A trade-off between plant and soil carbon storage under elevated CO2

C Terrer, RP Phillips, BA Hungate, J Rosende… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Terrestrial ecosystems remove about 30 per cent of the carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted by
human activities each year, yet the persistence of this carbon sink depends partly on how …

Increasing impact of warm droughts on northern ecosystem productivity over recent decades

D Gampe, J Zscheischler, M Reichstein… - Nature Climate …, 2021 - nature.com
Climate extremes such as droughts and heatwaves have a large impact on terrestrial carbon
uptake by reducing gross primary production (GPP). While the evidence for increasing …

[HTML][HTML] Global carbon budget 2023

P Friedlingstein, M O'sullivan, MW Jones… - Earth System …, 2023 - essd.copernicus.org
Accurate assessment of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and their
redistribution among the atmosphere, ocean, and terrestrial biosphere in a changing climate …

[HTML][HTML] Global carbon budget 2022

P Friedlingstein, M O'sullivan, MW Jones… - Earth System …, 2022 - essd.copernicus.org
Accurate assessment of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO 2) emissions and their
redistribution among the atmosphere, ocean, and terrestrial biosphere in a changing climate …