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Dr. Peter Thornton studies the interactions of land ecosystems with other components of the Earth's climate system including biogeochemical and physical land-atmosphere feedbacks, and interactions with human systems.
North American Forest Dynamics (NAFD) attribution type layer illustrating the type of change event where all events from 1986-2010 were combined. Source: Schleeweis et al. (2020) https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1799
Four variables for the same 3-hour timestep, December 8, 2015, 12:00 AM to 3:00 AM, a) precipitation flux (kg m-2 s-1) b) air temperature (K) c) shortwave radiation flux (W m-2) d) specific humidity. Source: western_USA_precipitation_3hr_2015-12.nc4
Forested land in the western conterminous United States classified by priority for preservation to mitigate climate change, based on the spatial co-occurrence of vulnerability to drought and fire and potential carbon sequestration. Source: Buotte et al. 2020
A white spruce tree is instrumented with a hemispherical and field-stop photochemical reflectance index (PRI) sensor and point dendrometer at a northern treeline site along the Dalton Highway, Brooks Range, Alaska. Source: Eitel et al., 2020
The tree density per hectare is shown for different crown size classes: (a) 3-15 m2, (b) 15-50 m2, (c) 50-200 m2, (d) >200 m2. Source: Brandt et al. (2020)
Global monthly gross primary productivity (GPP) of biomass for December 2016.
Level 4 SMAP Net Ecosystem Exchange (SPL4CMDL) Global daily 9km Gross Primary Productivity (GPP) mean subset for the Colorado Slate River Crested Butte site as graphed from the Fixed Sites Subsets Tool.
Vulcan v3.0 FFCO2 annual total emissions (tC/km2/year) for the United States in 2011 at a 1 km resolution. Source: Figure 3(a) in Gurney et al., 2020.