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Axel Kleidon is affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Germany and conducts research primarily in the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Aerospace Engineering, and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment.

The scientist's research topics cover a wide variety of areas such as Climate Variability and Models, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Earth Systems and Cosmic Evolution, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Wind Energy Research and Development, Global Energy and Sustainability Research, and Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics.

Recent publications by Axel Kleidon include:

  • What limits photosynthesis? Identifying the thermodynamic constraints of the terrestrial biosphere within the Earth system, 2020, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics

Frequent co-authors in Axel Kleidon's research include:

  • Sarosh Alam Ghausi
  • Maik Renner
  • Yinglin Tian
  • Erwin Zehe
  • Annu Panwar

Axel Kleidon's work has appeared repeatedly in several publication venues, notably:

  • Physik in unserer Zeit
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Hydrology and earth system sciences
  • Earth System Dynamics
  • Journal of Climate

Best Publications

  • Carbon residence time dominates uncertainty in terrestrial vegetation responses to future climate and atmospheric CO2

    Andrew D. Friend;Wolfgang Lucht;Wolfgang Lucht;Tim T. Rademacher;Rozenn Keribin

  • BELOWGROUND CONSEQUENCES OF VEGETATION CHANGE AND THEIR TREATMENT IN MODELS

    R. B. Jackson;H. J. Schenk;H. J. Schenk;E. G. Jobbágy;J. Canadell

  • Modeling Root Water Uptake in Hydrological and Climate Models

    R.A. Feddes;H. Hoff;M. Bruen;T.E. Dawson

  • Non-equilibrium thermodynamics and the production of entropy : life, earth, and beyond

    Axel Kleidon;Ralph D. Lorenz;H. Grassl

  • Non-equilibrium Thermodynamics and the Production of Entropy

    Axel Kleidon;Ralph D. Lorenz

  • A green planet versus a desert world: estimating the maximum effect of vegetation on the land surface climate.

    Axel Kleidon;Klaus Fraedrich;Martin Heimann

  • The Jena Diversity-Dynamic Global Vegetation Model (JeDi-DGVM): a diverse approach to representing terrestrial biogeography and biogeochemistry based on plant functional trade-offs

    Ryan Pavlick;Darren T. Drewry;Kristin Bohn;Björn Reu

  • A global distribution of biodiversity inferred from climatic constraints: results from a process‐based modelling study

    Axel Kleidon;Harold A. Mooney

  • Life, hierarchy, and the thermodynamic machinery of planet Earth

    Axel Kleidon

  • Maximum entropy production in environmental and ecological systems

    Axel Kleidon;Yadvinder Malhi;Peter M. Cox

  • A method of determining rooting depth from a terrestrial biosphere model and its impacts on the global water and carbon cycle

    AxeL. Kleidon;Martin Heimann

  • Nonequilibrium thermodynamics and maximum entropy production in the Earth system

    Axel Kleidon

  • BEYOND GAIA: THERMODYNAMICS OF LIFE AND EARTH SYSTEM FUNCTIONING

    Axel Kleidon

  • Estimating impacts of lichens and bryophytes on global biogeochemical cycles

    Philipp Porada;Bettina Weber;Wolfgang Elbert;Ulrich Pöschl

  • Assessing the role of deep rooted vegetation in the climate system with model simulations: mechanism, comparison to observations and implications for Amazonian deforestation

    Axel Kleidon;Martin Heimann

  • Estimating global carbon uptake by lichens and bryophytes with a process-based model

    Philipp Porada;B Weber;W Elbert;U Pöschl

  • Estimating maximum global land surface wind power extractability and associated climatic consequences

    L. M. Miller;F. Gans;Axel Kleidon

  • Advancing catchment hydrology to deal with predictions under change

    U. Ehret;H. V. Gupta;M. Sivapalan;S. V. Weijs

  • Thermodynamic Foundations of the Earth System

    Axel Kleidon

  • Thermodynamics and optimality of the water budget on land: A review

    Axel Kleidon;Stan Schymanski

  • The atmospheric circulation and states of maximum entropy production

    Axel Kleidon;Klaus Fraedrich;Torben Kunz;Frank Lunkeit

Frequent Co-Authors

Erwin Zehe
Erwin Zehe Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Theresa Blume
Theresa Blume Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Ulrich Pöschl
Ulrich Pöschl Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
Christian Beer
Christian Beer Stockholm University
Martin Heimann
Martin Heimann Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Mark R. Lomas
Mark R. Lomas University of Sheffield
Klaus Fraedrich
Klaus Fraedrich Max Planck Society
Sibyll Schaphoff
Sibyll Schaphoff Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Andrew D. Friend
Andrew D. Friend University of Cambridge
Volker Wulfmeyer
Volker Wulfmeyer University of Hohenheim

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