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Environmental Sciences
UK
2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
85
Citations
38050
World Ranking
731
National Ranking
61

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Chris Huntingford is affiliated with the Natural Environment Research Council in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with significant contributions to the subfields of Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Plant Science, and Economics and Econometrics.

Huntingford's scholarly work covers diverse topics including climate variability and models, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, meteorological phenomena and simulations, ecosystem dynamics and resilience, plant responses to elevated CO2, and remote sensing in agriculture.

Frequent publication venues for Huntingford include:

  • Earth System Dynamics
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Global Change Biology
  • Geoscientific Model Development

They have collaborated extensively with several researchers, including:

  • Shilong Piao (20 co-authored publications)
  • Peter M. Cox (14 co-authored publications)
  • Josep Peñuelas (10 co-authored publications)
  • Jiangpeng Cui (9 co-authored publications)
  • Anping Chen (8 co-authored publications)

Notable recent publications by Huntingford include:

  • "Multifaceted characteristics of dryland aridity changes in a warming world" (2021) published in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • "Summer soil drying exacerbated by earlier spring greening of northern vegetation" (2020) published in Science Advances
  • "The 2021 western North America heat wave among the most extreme events ever recorded globally" (2022) published in Science Advances
  • "Drivers and impacts of Eastern African rainfall variability" (2023) published in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • "Overshooting tipping point thresholds in a changing climate" (2021) published in Nature

Best Publications

  • Trends in the sources and sinks of carbon dioxide

    Corinne Le Quéré;Corinne Le Quéré;Michael R. Raupach;Josep G. Canadell;Gregg Marland

  • Warming caused by cumulative carbon emissions towards the trillionth tonne

    Myles R. Allen;David J. Frame;Chris Huntingford;Chris D. Jones

  • Evaluation of the terrestrial carbon cycle, future plant geography and climate‐carbon cycle feedbacks using five Dynamic Global Vegetation Models (DGVMs)

    Stephan Sitch;C. Huntingford;N. Gedney;P. E. Levy

  • Indirect radiative forcing of climate change through ozone effects on the land-carbon sink

    S. Sitch;P. M. Cox;W. J. Collins;C. Huntingford

  • Impact of changes in diffuse radiation on the global land carbon sink

    Lina M. Mercado;Nicolas Bellouin;Stephen Sitch;Olivier Boucher

  • Amazonian forest dieback under climate-carbon cycle projections for the 21st century

    P. M. Cox;R. A. Betts;M. Collins;P. P. Harris

  • Exploring the likelihood and mechanism of a climate-change-induced dieback of the Amazon rainforest.

    Yadvinder Malhi;Luiz E O C Aragão;David Galbraith;Chris Huntingford

  • The Joint UK Land Environment Simulator (JULES), model description – Part 2: Carbon fluxes and vegetation dynamics

    D. B. Clark;L. M. Mercado;S. Sitch;C. D. Jones

  • Detection of a direct carbon dioxide effect in continental river runoff records

    N. Gedney;P. M. Cox;R. A. Betts;O. Boucher

  • Recent trends and drivers of regional sources and sinks of carbon dioxide

    S. Sitch;P. Friedlingstein;N. Gruber;S. D. Jones

  • Evaluation of terrestrial carbon cycle models for their response to climate variability and to CO2 trends.

    Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Stephen Sitch;Philippe Ciais;Pierre Friedlingstein

  • Sensitivity of tropical carbon to climate change constrained by carbon dioxide variability

    Peter M. Cox;David Pearson;Ben B. Booth;Pierre Friedlingstein

  • Projected increase in continental runoff due to plant responses to increasing carbon dioxide

    Richard A. Betts;Olivier Boucher;Matthew Collins;Peter M. Cox;Peter M. Cox

  • The global carbon budget 1959-2011

    C. Le Quere;R.J. Andres;T.A. Boden;T. Conway

  • Compensatory water effects link yearly global land CO2 sink changes to temperature

    Martin Jung;Markus Reichstein;Christopher R. Schwalm;Christopher Huntingford

  • Evidence for a weakening relationship between interannual temperature variability and northern vegetation activity

    Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Huijuan Nan;Chris Huntingford;Philippe Ciais

  • Multifaceted characteristics of dryland aridity changes in a warming world

    Xu Lian;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Anping Chen;Chris Huntingford

  • Increasing risk of Amazonian drought due to decreasing aerosol pollution

    Peter M. Cox;Phil P. Harris;Chris Huntingford;Richard A. Betts

  • The role of ecosystem-atmosphere interactions in simulated Amazonian precipitation decrease and forest dieback under global climate warming

    R. A. Betts;P. M. Cox;M. Collins;P. P. Harris

  • Simulated resilience of tropical rainforests to CO2-induced climate change

    Chris Huntingford;Przemyslaw Zelazowski;David Galbraith;David Galbraith;Lina M. Mercado

  • Water-use efficiency and transpiration across European forests during the Anthropocene

    D. C. Frank;B. Poulter;M. Saurer;J. Esper

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter M. Cox
Peter M. Cox University of Exeter
Stephen Sitch
Stephen Sitch University of Exeter
Lina M. Mercado
Lina M. Mercado University of Exeter
Chris D. Jones
Chris D. Jones Met Office
Shilong Piao
Shilong Piao Peking University
Jason Lowe
Jason Lowe Met Office
Myles R. Allen
Myles R. Allen University of Oxford
Peter E. Levy
Peter E. Levy University of Edinburgh
Nicola Gedney
Nicola Gedney Met Office
Pierre Friedlingstein
Pierre Friedlingstein University of Exeter

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