Research Highlights | Earth & Environmental Systems Modeling

Project: Reducing Uncertainty in Biogeochemical Interactions through Synthesis and Computation (RUBISCO) Scientific Focus Area (SFA)

Title		Contact	Institution
Soil Moisture Controls Over Carbon Sequestration and Greenhouse Gas Emissions: A Review	RGMA	Jiafu Mao	Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Earth’s Record-High Greenness and Its Attributions in 2020	RGMA	Jiafu Mao	Oak Ridge National Laboratory
CMIP6 High Resolution Model Intercomparison Project (HighResMIP) Bias in Extreme Rainfall Drives Underestimation of Amazonian Precipitation	RGMA	Robinson Negron-Juarez	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Global Net Climate Effects of Anthropogenic Reactive Nitrogen	RGMA	Qing Zhu	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Changes in Above- Versus Belowground Biomass Distribution in Permafrost Regions in Response to Climate Warming	RGMA	Qing Zhu	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
A New Paradigm for Improving Ecosystem Biogeochemistry Models	RGMA	William J. Riley	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peat Soils and Snow Schemes Mutually Impact Permafrost Simulations	RGMA	Jing Tao	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Quantifying the long-term changes of terrestrial water storage and their driving factors	ESMD RGMA	Jiafu Mao	Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Plant Responses to Elevated CO2 Under Competing Hypotheses of Nitrogen and Phosphorus Limitations	ESMD RGMA	Qing Zhu	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
New Theory Resolves the Non-Monotonic Temperature Response of Biogeochemical Reaction Rates	RGMA	William J. Riley	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Boreal–Arctic Wetland Methane Emissions Modulated by Warming and Vegetation Activity	RGMA	Qing Zhu	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Systematic Underestimation of Canopy Conductance Sensitivity to Drought by Earth System Models	RGMA	Trevor Keenan	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Climate Change Will Increase Biomass Proportion of Global Forest Carbon Stocks Under an SSP5–8.5 Climate Trajectory	RGMA	William J. Riley	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) - Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division
Increased Photosynthesis During Spring Drought in Energy-Limited Ecosystems	RGMA	Trevor Keenan	University of California Berkeley
Evidence and Attribution of the Enhanced Land Carbon Sink	RGMA	Trevor Keenan	Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley
Biome-Scale Temperature Sensitivity of Ecosystem Respiration Revealed by Atmospheric CO2 Observations	RGMA	Trevor Keenan	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Machine Learning-based Global Fire Modeling and Control Attributions	RGMA	Jiafu Mao	Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Reduced CO2 Uptake and Growing Nutrient Sequestration from Slowing Overturning Circulation	ESMD RGMA	Jefferson Keith Moore	University of California Irvine (UC Irvine) - Department of Earth System Science
Understanding the Coupled Carbon-Climate Response to Negative CO2 Emissions	RGMA	Charles D. Koven	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Site-Specific Field Management is Needed to Feed the World in the 21st Century	RGMA	William J. Riley	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Quantification of Human Contribution to Soil Moisture-Based Terrestrial Aridity	RGMA	Jiafu Mao	Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Diminishing Seasonality of Subtropical Water Availability in a Warmer World Dominated by Soil Moisture-Atmosphere Feedbacks	RGMA	Trevor Keenan	University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
Wildfire Exacerbates High-Latitude Soil Carbon Losses From Climate Warming	RGMA	William J. Riley	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Increasing Sensitivity of Dryland Vegetation Greenness to Precipitation Due to Rising Atmospheric CO2	RGMA	Trevor Keenan	University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
Land Use Change Intensifies Negative Carbon Cycle Extremes	RGMA	Bharat Sharma	Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
Understanding long-term climate response to CO2 emissions under both very high and net-negative CO2 emissions scenarios	RGMA	Charlie Koven	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) - Climate and Ecosystem Science Division
Understanding and Reducing the Uncertainties of Land Surface Energy Flux Partitioning Within CMIP6 Land Models	ESMD RGMA	William J. Riley	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)
Wetter California Projected by CMIP6 Models With Observational Constraints Under a High GHG Emission Scenario	RGMA	William J. Riley	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)
Large Divergence in Tropical Hydrological Projections Caused by Model Spread in Elevated CO2 Responses	RGMA	Trevor F. Keenan	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)
Machine Learning–Based Observation-Constrained Projections Reveal Elevated Global Socioeconomic Risks from Wildfire	RGMA	Jiafu Mao	Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)

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