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Overview

Charles D. Koven is affiliated with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the United States. Their research focuses on areas within environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with particular emphasis on global and planetary change and atmospheric science. Their work also spans nature and landscape conservation, ecology, and plant science.

Their contributions have been published extensively in several scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include Biogeosciences, OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information), Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, Geoscientific Model Development, and Nature Geoscience.

Charles D. Koven's research interests cover multiple key topics, which include:

  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Climate variability and models
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Forest ecology and management

Frequent collaborators in their research include Rosie A. Fisher, Ryan Knox, Jeffrey Q. Chambers, Lara M. Kueppers, and Chonggang Xu.

Examples of recent papers reflecting their research scope include:

  • Carbon release through abrupt permafrost thaw, 2020, Nature Geoscience
  • Carbon-concentration and carbon-climate feedbacks in CMIP6 models and their comparison to CMIP5 models, 2020, Biogeosciences
  • Perspectives on the Future of Land Surface Models and the Challenges of Representing Complex Terrestrial Systems, 2020, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • The drivers and impacts of Amazon forest degradation, 2023, Science
  • Spatial heterogeneity and environmental predictors of permafrost region soil organic carbon stocks, 2021, Science Advances

Best Publications

  • Global Carbon Budget 2016

    Corinne Le Quere;Robbie M. Andrew;Josep G. Canadell;Stephen Sitch

  • Climate change and the permafrost carbon feedback

    E. A. G. Schuur;A. D. McGuire;C. Schädel;C. Schädel;Guido Grosse

  • Global Carbon Budget 2015

    C. Le Quéré;R. Moriarty;R. M. Andrew;J. G. Canadell

  • Global carbon budget 2014

    C. Le Quéré;R. Moriarty;R. M. Andrew;G. P. Peters

  • Global carbon budget 2013

    C. Le Quere;G.P. Peters;R.J. Andres;Robbie M Andrew

  • Greening of the Earth and its drivers

    Zaichun Zhu;Zaichun Zhu;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Ranga B. Myneni;Mengtian Huang

  • The Community Land Model version 5 : description of new features, benchmarking, and impact of forcing uncertainty

    David M. Lawrence;Rosie A. Fisher;Charles D. Koven;Keith W. Oleson

  • Estimated stocks of circumpolar permafrost carbon with quantified uncertainty ranges and identified data gaps

    Gustaf Hugelius;Jens Strauss;Sebastian Zubrzycki;Jennifer W. Harden

  • Permafrost carbon-climate feedbacks accelerate global warming.

    Charles D. Koven;Bruno Ringeval;Pierre Friedlingstein;Philippe Ciais

  • Carbon release through abrupt permafrost thaw

    Merritt R. Turetsky;Merritt R. Turetsky;Benjamin W. Abbott;Miriam C. Jones;Katey Walter Anthony

  • Global Carbon and other Biogeochemical Cycles and Feedbacks

    Josep G. Canadell;Pedro M.S. Monteiro;Marcos H. Costa;Leticia Cotrim Da Cunha

  • Vegetation demographics in Earth System Models: A review of progress and priorities.

    Rosie A. Fisher;Charles D. Koven;William R. L. Anderegg;Bradley O. Christoffersen

  • Perspectives on the Future of Land Surface Models and the Challenges of Representing Complex Terrestrial Systems

    Rosie A. Fisher;Charles D. Koven

  • Spring temperature change and its implication in the change of vegetation growth in North America from 1982 to 2006

    Xuhui Wang;Shilong Piao;Philippe Ciais;Junsheng Li

  • Terrestrial and Inland Water Systems

    Josef Settele;Robert Scholes;Richard A Betts;Stuart Bunn

  • Plant responses to increasing CO2 reduce estimates of climate impacts on drought severity.

    Abigail L. S. Swann;Forrest M. Hoffman;Charles D. Koven;James T. Randerson

  • The drivers and impacts of Amazon forest degradation

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  • Carbon-concentration and carbon-climate feedbacks in CMIP6 models and their comparison to CMIP5 models

    Vivek K. Arora;Anna Katavouta;Anna Katavouta;Richard G. Williams;Chris D. Jones

  • Drivers and Mechanisms of Tree Mortality in Moist Tropical Forests

    Nate G. McDowell;Craig D. Allen;Kristina Anderson‐Teixeira;Kristina Anderson‐Teixeira;Paulo M. Brando

  • Dependence of the evolution of carbon dynamics in the northern permafrost region on the trajectory of climate change.

    A. David McGuire;David M. Lawrence;Charles Koven;Joy S. Clein

  • Toward more realistic projections of soil carbon dynamics by Earth system models

    Yiqi Luo;Yiqi Luo;Anders Ahlström;Anders Ahlström;Steven D. Allison;Niels H. Batjes

  • Analysis of Permafrost Thermal Dynamics and Response to Climate Change in the CMIP5 Earth System Models

    Charles D. Koven;William J. Riley;Alex Stern

Frequent Co-Authors

William J. Riley
William J. Riley Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
David M. Lawrence
David M. Lawrence National Center for Atmospheric Research
Pierre Friedlingstein
Pierre Friedlingstein University of Exeter
Rosie A. Fisher
Rosie A. Fisher National Center for Atmospheric Research
Gustaf Hugelius
Gustaf Hugelius Stockholm University
Jeffrey Q. Chambers
Jeffrey Q. Chambers Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Jennifer W. Harden
Jennifer W. Harden United States Geological Survey
Lara M. Kueppers
Lara M. Kueppers Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Guido Grosse
Guido Grosse Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Shushi Peng
Shushi Peng Peking University

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