Drivers and impacts of Eastern African rainfall variability

PI Palmer, CM Wainwright, B Dong… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
Eastern Africa exhibits bimodal rainfall consisting of long rains (March–May) and short rains
(October–December), changes in which have profound socioeconomic and environmental …

Temperature responses of photosynthesis and respiration in evergreen trees from boreal to tropical latitudes

KY Crous, J Uddling, MG De Kauwe - New Phytologist, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Evergreen species are widespread across the globe, representing two major plant functional
forms in terrestrial models. We reviewed and analysed the responses of photosynthesis and …

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 …

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 …

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 …

UKESM1: Description and evaluation of the UK Earth System Model

AA Sellar, CG Jones, JP Mulcahy… - Journal of Advances …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
We document the development of the first version of the UK Earth System Model UKESM1.
The model represents a major advance on its predecessor HadGEM2‐ES, with …

Configuration and spin-up of ACCESS-CM2, the new generation Australian community climate and earth system simulator coupled model

D Bi, M Dix, S Marsland, S O'farrell… - Journal of Southern …, 2020 - CSIRO Publishing
A new version of the Australian Community Climate and Earth System Simulator coupled
model, ACCESS-CM2, has been developed for a wide range of climate modelling research …

Temperature extremes of 2022 reduced carbon uptake by forests in Europe

AM Van Der Woude, W Peters, E Joetzjer… - nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The year 2022 saw record breaking temperatures in Europe during both summer and fall.
Similar to the recent 2018 drought, close to 30%(3.0 million km2) of the European continent …

Global carbon budget 2017

C Le Quéré, RM Andrew… - Earth System …, 2018 - essd.copernicus.org
Accurate assessment of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO 2) emissions and their
redistribution among the atmosphere, ocean, and terrestrial biosphere–the global carbon …