University of California, Irvine

Ecosystem-Climate Feedbacks

Improving our understanding of ecosystem-climate feedbacks is necessary for creating more realistic scenarios of future change and for designing effective climate mitigation policy.

Examples of recent publications on ecosystem-climate feedbacks:

Kooperman, G.J., Y. Chen, F.M. Hoffman, C.D. Koven, K. Lindsay, M.S. Pritchard, A.L.S. Swann, and J.T. Randerson. 2018. Forest response to rising CO2 drives zonally asymmetric rainfall change over tropical land. Nature Climate Change. doi: 10.1038/s41558-018-0144-7.

Levine, P.A., J.T. Randerson, S.C. Swenson, and D.M. Lawrence. 2016. Evaluating the strength of the land-atmosphere moisture feedback in earth system models using satellite observations. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. 20:  4837-4856. doi:10.5194/hess-2016-206.

Swann, A.L.S., F.M. Hoffmann, C.D. Koven, and J.T. Randerson. 2016. Plant responses to increasing CO2 reduce estimates of climate impacts on drought severity.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States. doi:10.1073/pnas.1604581113.

Rogers, B.M., A.J. Soja, M.L. Goulden, and J.T. Randerson. 2015. Influence of tree species on continental differences in boreal fires and climate feedbacks. Nature Geosciences. doi: 10.1038/NGEO23.

Tosca, M.G., J.T. Randerson, and C.S. Zender. 2013. Global impact of smoke aerosols from landscape fires on climate and the Hadley circulation. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 13: 5227–5241. doi:10.5194/acp-13-5227-2013.

Rogers, B.M., J.T. Randerson, and G.B. Bonan. 2013. High latitude cooling associated with landscape changes from North American boreal forest fires. Biogeosciences. 10: 699–718. doi:10.5194/bg-10-699-2013.

Tosca, M.G., J.T. Randerson, C.S. Zender, M.G. Flanner, and P.J. Rasch. 2010. Do biomass burning aerosols intensify drought in equatorial Asia during El Nino? Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 10: 3515–3528.

Randerson, J.T., H. Liu, M.G. Flanner, S.D. Chambers, Y. Jin, P.G. Hess, G. Pfister, M.C. Mack, K.K. Treseder, L.R. Welp, F.S. Chapin, J.W. Harden, M.L. Goulden, E. Lyons, J.C. Neff, E.A.G. Schuur, C.S. Zender. The impact of boreal forest fire on climate warming. 2006. Science. 314: 1130-1132.

Using GRACE observations to evaluate land-atmosphere moisture feedbacks from Levine et al. (2016)