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CMIP7 data request: impacts and adaptation priorities and opportunities Open

Alex C. Ruane, Jesús Fernández, Paula González, Ulaş İm, Xiaomao Lin , et al. · 2025

The Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 7 (CMIP7) undertook an extensive process to gather community input and refine data requests related to impacts and adaptation applications of Earth System Model (ESM) outputs. The Impacts and…

Supplementary material to "Implementing belowground controls on nutrient uptake in ELMv2-SPRUCE improves representation of a boreal peatland ecosystem" Open

Yaoping Wang, Daniel Ricciuto, Jiafu Mao, Xiaoying Shi, Xiaojuan Yang , et al. · 2025

Implementing belowground controls on nutrient uptake in ELMv2-SPRUCE improves representation of a boreal peatland ecosystem Open

Yaoping Wang, Daniel Ricciuto, Jiafu Mao, Sören Eliot Weber, Xiaoying Shi , et al. · 2025

Boreal peatlands store 13–32 % of the global soil carbon (C) stock, a service dependent on plant-mycorrhizal fungi associations. In these nutrient poor systems, ectomycorrhizal and ericoid mycorrhizal fungi supply up to >80 % of the nutrie…

Comment on essd-2025-546 Open

Jiafu Mao · 2025

Benchmarking soil moisture and its relationship to ecohydrologic variables in Earth System Models Open

Elias Massoud, Nathan Collier, Yaoping Wang, Jiafu Mao, A. A. Harpold , et al. · 2025

Soil moisture (SM) is a key regulator of ecosystem biogeophysics, influencing plant water relations and land-atmosphere energy exchanges. This study evaluates the representation of SM in Earth System Models (ESMs) using the International L…

Cooling outweighs warming across phenological transitions in the Northern Hemisphere Open

Yizhuo Li, Lin Meng, Andrew D. Richardson, Xuhui Lee, Annette Menzel , et al. · 2025

Vegetation phenology, i.e., seasonal biological events such as leaf-out and leaf-fall, regulates local climate through biophysical processes like evapotranspiration (ET) and albedo. However, the net surface temperature impact of these proc…

High Warming Restricts the Growth and Movement of a Larval Chinese Critically Endangered Relict Newt Open

Wei Li, Shiyan Feng, Shanshan Zhao, Di An, Jiafu Mao , et al. · 2025

Amphibians are the most threatened vertebrates, yet their resilience in relation to growth and locomotor performance with rising temperatures remains poorly understood. Here, we chose a critically endangered amphibian—the Chinhai spiny new…

CMIP7 Data Request: Impacts and Adaptation Priorities and Opportunities Open

Alex C. Ruane, Charlotte Pascoe, Claas Teichmann, David Brayshaw, Carlo Buontempo , et al. · 2025

The Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 7 (CMIP7) undertook an extensive process to gather community input and refine data requests related to impacts and adaptation applications of Earth System Model (ESM) outputs. The Impacts and…

CMIP7 Data Request: Land and Land Ice Priorities and Opportunities Open

Yue Li, Gang Tang, Eleanor O’Rourke, Samar Minallah, Martim Mas e Braga , et al. · 2025

The Land and Land Ice Theme in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 7 (CMIP7) represents the current understanding of physical processes in land surface ecosystems, hydrology, cryosphere, and their physical interactions with oth…

CESER: wildfire mapping Open

Matt McCarthy, Jiafu Mao, Shannon Meade · 2025

Artificial light at night outweighs temperature in lengthening urban growing seasons Open

Lvlv Wang, Lin Meng, Andrew D. Richardson, Franz Hölker, Huidong Li , et al. · 2025

Plant growing seasons are largely regulated by light and temperature. Cities are increasingly hot (higher air temperature), from the urban heat island effect, and bright (artificial light at night, ALAN). However, the relative effect of he…

What do we (not) know about biodiversity finance governance? Open

Jesper Svensson, Jiafu Mao, Nils Droste · 2025

Tackling biodiversity loss requires not only scaling up financial resources but also improving the governance of how such resources are mobilized, allocated, and accounted for. This paper reviews recent peer-reviewed literature (2019–2023)…

Remotely Sensed High‐Resolution Soil Moisture and Evapotranspiration: Bridging the Gap Between Science and Society Open

Jingyi Huang, Vinit Sehgal, L. V. Alvarez, Luca Brocca, Shuohao Cai , et al. · 2025

This paper reviews the current state of high‐resolution remotely sensed soil moisture (SM) and evapotranspiration (ET) products and modeling, and the coupling relationship between SM and ET. SM downscaling approaches for satellite passive …

A unified ensemble soil moisture dataset across the continental United States Open

Lingcheng Li, Xinming Lin, Yilin Fang, Zhangshuan Hou, L. Ruby Leung , et al. · 2025

A unified ensemble soil moisture (SM) package has been developed over the Continental United States (CONUS). The data package includes 19 products from land surface models, remote sensing, reanalysis, and machine learning models. All datas…

OpenECG: Benchmarking ECG Foundation Models with Public 1.2 Million Records Open

Zhang Wan, Qianhao Yu, Jiafu Mao, Wenfeng Duan, Cheng Ding · 2025

This study introduces OpenECG, a large-scale benchmark of 1.2 million 12-lead ECG recordings from nine centers, to evaluate ECG foundation models (ECG-FMs) trained on public datasets. We investigate three self-supervised learning methods (…

Convective potential and fuel availability complement near-surface weather in regulating global wildfire activity Open

Hongxuan Su, Yan Yu, Weidong Guo, Jiafu Mao · 2025

Wildfires are favored by hot, dry, windy, rainless conditions—this knowledge about fire weather informs both short-term forecast and long-term prediction of wildfire activity. Yet, wildfires rely on the availability of ignition and fuel, w…

Soil moisture controls over carbon sequestration and greenhouse gas emissions: a review Open

Yuefeng Hao, Jiafu Mao, Charles M. Bachmann, Forrest M. Hoffman, Gerbrand Koren , et al. · 2025

This literature review synthesizes the role of soil moisture in regulating carbon sequestration and greenhouse gas emissions (CS-GHG). Soil moisture directly affects photosynthesis, respiration, microbial activity, and soil organic matter …

High-Resolution Fire Weather Index Data for the Conterminous US (1980–2099), Version 1 Open

Tianqi Zhang, Jiafu Mao, Shih-Chieh Kao · 2025

This dataset presents a suite of high-resolution fire weather index datasets calculated from observation (gridMet, Livneh, Daymet V4), reanalysis (AgERA5), downscaled hydro-climate projections over the conterminous United States (CONUS) ba…

Photonic reservoir computing based on micro-ring resonators for direction finding of unmanned aerial vehicles Open

Z.H Chen, Jiafu Mao, Shufei Han, Qiang Xia, Weihong Shen , et al. · 2025

Earth's record-high greenness and its attributions in 2020 Open

Jiafu Mao, Yulong Zhang, Ge Sun, Qinfeng Guo, Jeffrey Atkinson , et al. · 2024

Fires jeopardize world’s carbon sinks Open

Jiafu Mao · 2024

RUBISCO Soil Moisture Working Group (SMWG) Mini-Workshop Report Open

Jiafu Mao, Forrest M. Hoffman, Yaoping Wang · 2024

The RUBISCO Soil Moisture Working Group (SMWG), an initiative bolstered by the DOE RUBISCO Science Focus Area project, is committed to unraveling the intricacies of soil moisture and its profound impact on global hydrology, energy, and bio…

No constraint on long-term tropical land carbon-climate feedback uncertainties from interannual variability Open

Laibao Liu, Rosie A. Fisher, Hervé Douville, Ryan S. Padrón, Alexis Berg , et al. · 2024

Consistent time allocation fraction to vegetation green-up versus senescence across northern ecosystems despite recent climate change Open

Fandong Meng, Andrew J. Felton, Jiafu Mao, Nan Cong, William K. Smith , et al. · 2024

Extended growing season lengths under climatic warming suggest increased time for plant growth. However, research has focused on climatic impacts to the timing or duration of distinct phenological events. Comparatively little is known abou…

Nonnegligible cascading impacts of global urban expansion on net primary productivity Open

Kangyao Liu, Fengsong Pei, Xiaoping Liu, Zhenzhong Zeng, Peng Zhu , et al. · 2024

Accelerated global urban expansion not only directly occupies surrounding ecosystems, but also induces cascading losses of natural vegetation elsewhere through cropland displacement. Yet, how such effects alter the net primary productivity…

Evaluating the effects of heatwave events on hydrological processes in the contiguous United States (2003–2022) Open

Yuefeng Hao, Jiafu Mao, Mingzhou Jin, Yaoping Wang, Rongyun Tang , et al. · 2024

Thermal, water, and land cover factors led to contrasting urban and rural vegetation resilience to extreme hot months Open

Yaoping Wang, Jiafu Mao, Christa Brelsford, Daniel Ricciuto, Fengming Yuan , et al. · 2024

With continuing global warming and urbanization, it is increasingly important to understand the resilience of urban vegetation to extreme high temperatures, but few studies have examined urban vegetation at large scale or both concurrent a…

Quantifying the long-term changes of terrestrial water storage and their driving factors Open

Xiaoying Shi, Yaoping Wang, Jiafu Mao, Peter Thornton, Daniel M. Riccuito , et al. · 2024

SPRUCE-MIP: Model Intercomparison of Northern Peatland Carbon Cycle Over the SPRUCE Site Open

Daniel Ricciuto, Xiaoying Shi, Yaoping Wang, Paul J. Hanson, Jiafu Mao , et al. · 2024

Peatlands cover only 3% of Earth’s land surface but contain about 30% of the global soil carbon pool. The strong sensitivity of C cycle to environmental factors such as soil temperature and moisture has let to concerns about potentia…

Can long-term tropical land carbon-climate feedback uncertainties be constrained from interannual variability? Open

Laibao Liu, Rosie A. Fisher, Hervé Douville, Ryan S. Padrón, Alexis Berg , et al. · 2024

Whether tropical land carbon sink will persist in the future to slow climate change remains elusive in Earth System Model (ESM) projections, largely due to carbon-climate feedback uncertainties. Unraveling drivers of interannual variabilit…

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