The reduction in growth of plants restricted by limitations on nutrients, temperature and/or water stress, didn’t just reduce photosynthesis but led to negative feedbacks in plant carbon balance processes.
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When researchers compared the results derived from FLUXNET data with the results synthesised from the literature, they found substantial differences.
As a result, they suggest a new benchmarking metric that could be used to test existing hypotheses embedded in climate models and have mapped a path forward involving using further detailed observations to improve the way coupling/decoupling processes currently represented in climate models.
This paper, A census of atmospheric variability from seconds to decades, synthesises and summarises atmospheric variability on time scales from seconds to decades through a phenomenological census. It focuses mainly on unforced variability in the troposphere, stratosphere, and mesosphere.
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This study explored the key sources of uncertainty when scaling leaf-level understanding of water-use efficiency to ecosystem scales. The results provide key insights into interpreting (ecosystem-scale) eddy-covariance derived water-use efficiency in an ecophysiological context.
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This paper combines existing global evapotranspiration estimates to create a new global product with an observationally constrained estimate of uncertainty. It utilises the latest release of ground-based estimates to show that even point-based evapotranspiration estimates have information about much larger spatial scales.
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CLEX Chief Investigator Prof Christian Jakob at a recent Monash University STEM talk takes his audience into the world of climate models. It’s a talk that looks under the hood to see what powers modern climate models.
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