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Featured Publications
High-Fidelity Deep Approximation of Ecosystem Simulation over Long-Term at Large Scale
DOI: 10.1145/3589132.3625577
CMS Project(s): Hurtt (CMS 2020)
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Conservation policies and management in the Ukrainian Emerald Network have maintained reforestation rate despite the war
DOI: 10.1038/s43247-023-01099-4
CMS Project(s): Hurtt (CMS 2020)
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Global Carbon Budget 2023
DOI: 10.5194/essd-15-5301-2023
CMS Project(s): Hurtt (CMS 2020)
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Assessing the methane mitigation potential of innovative management in US rice production
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ad0925
CMS Project(s): Runkle (CMS 2020)
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Publications

Abdaki, M., Sanchez-Azofeifa, A., Vargas, R., Ludwig, R., Hamann, H. F. 2024. Spatial and temporal variation of three Eddy-Covariance flux footprints in a Tropical Dry Forest. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 345, 109863. DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2023.109863

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Braden, D., Mondal, P., Park, T., Alanis de la Rosa, J. A., Aldrete Leal, M. I., Cuenca Lara, R. A., Mayorga Saucedo, R., Paz, F., Salas-Aguilar, V. M., Soriano-Luna, M. D. L. A., Vargas, R. 2024. Estimating forest extent across Mexico. Environmental Research Letters. 19(1), 014083. DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ad193e

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Brown, M. E., Mitchell, C., Halabisky, M., Gustafson, B., Gomes, H. D. R., Goes, J. I., Zhang, X., Campbell, A. D., Poulter, B. 2023. Assessment of the NASA carbon monitoring system wet carbon stakeholder community: data needs, gaps, and opportunities. Environmental Research Letters. 18(8), 084005. DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ace208

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Chen, Z., Balasus, N., Lin, H., Nesser, H., Jacob, D. J. 2024. African rice cultivation linked to rising methane. Nature Climate Change. DOI: 10.1038/s41558-023-01907-x

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Delgado-Balbuena, J., Loescher, H. W., Aguirre-Gutierrez, C. A., Alfaro-Reyna, T., Pineda-Martinez, L. F., Vargas, R., Arredondo, T. 2023. Dynamics of short-term ecosystem carbon fluxes induced by precipitation events in a semiarid grassland. Biogeosciences. 20(12), 2369-2385. DOI: 10.5194/bg-20-2369-2023

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Foster, K. T., Sun, W., Shiga, Y. P., Mao, J., Michalak, A. M. 2024. Multiscale assessment of North American terrestrial carbon balance. Biogeosciences. 21(3), 869-891. DOI: 10.5194/bg-21-869-2024

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Hogan, J. A., Domke, G. M., Zhu, K., Johnson, D. J., Lichstein, J. W. 2024. Climate change determines the sign of productivity trends in US forests. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(4). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2311132121

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Le, V. H., Vargas, R. 2024. An autocorrelated conditioned Latin hypercube method for temporal or spatial sampling and predictions. Computers & Geosciences. 184, 105539. DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2024.105539

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Le, V. H., Vargas, R. 2024. Beyond a deterministic representation of the temperature dependence of soil respiration. Science of The Total Environment. 912, 169391. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.169391

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Maasakkers, J. D., McDuffie, E. E., Sulprizio, M. P., Chen, C., Schultz, M., Brunelle, L., Thrush, R., Steller, J., Sherry, C., Jacob, D. J., Jeong, S., Irving, B., Weitz, M. 2023. A Gridded Inventory of Annual 2012-2018 U.S. Anthropogenic Methane Emissions. Environmental Science & Technology. 57(43), 16276-16288. DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.3c05138

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Murray-Tortarolo, G., Perea, K., Mendoza-Ponce, A., Martinez-Arroyo, A., Murguia-Flores, F., Jaramillo, V. J., Serrano-Medrano, M., Garcia-Garcia, M., Vargas, R., Chatterjee, A., Michalak, A., Zhang, Z., Wang, J. A., Poulter, B. 2024. A Greenhouse Gas Budget for Mexico During 2000-2019. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. 129(1). DOI: 10.1029/2023JG007667

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Roa, C., Olaya, P., Llamas, R., Vargas, R., Taufer, M. 2023. GEOtiled: A Scalable Workflow for Generating Large Datasets of High-Resolution Terrain Parameters. Proceedings of the 32nd International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing. DOI: 10.1145/3588195.3595941

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Stewart, A. J., Halabisky, M., Babcock, C., Butman, D. E., D'Amore, D. V., Moskal, L. M. 2024. Revealing the hidden carbon in forested wetland soils. Nature Communications. 15(1). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-44888-x

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Watine-Guiu, M., Varon, D. J., Irakulis-Loitxate, I., Balasus, N., Jacob, D. J. 2023. Geostationary satellite observations of extreme and transient methane emissions from oil and gas infrastructure. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(52). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2310797120

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Worden, J. R., Pandey, S., Zhang, Y., Cusworth, D. H., Qu, Z., Bloom, A. A., Ma, S., Maasakkers, J. D., Byrne, B., Duren, R., Crisp, D., Gordon, D., Jacob, D. J. 2023. Verifying Methane Inventories and Trends With Atmospheric Methane Data. AGU Advances. 4(4). DOI: 10.1029/2023av000871

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Yuan, K., Li, F., McNicol, G., Chen, M., Hoyt, A., Knox, S., Riley, W. J., Jackson, R., Zhu, Q. 2024. Boreal-Arctic wetland methane emissions modulated by warming and vegetation activity. Nature Climate Change. DOI: 10.1038/s41558-024-01933-3

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