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2026

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Environmental Sciences

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108
Citations
60496
World Ranking
224
National Ranking
100

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  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award

Overview

David M. Lawrence is affiliated with the National Center for Atmospheric Research in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, covering a significant number of publications in these areas.

The scientist's work encompasses several specialized subfields, including:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Water Science and Technology
  • Ecology
  • Environmental Engineering

The main research topics investigated by David M. Lawrence include:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies

Their scholarship is frequently disseminated in several key publication venues, notably:

  • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Geoscientific Model Development
  • Nature Communications
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Geophysical Research Letters

Notable recent papers by David M. Lawrence include:

  • The Community Earth System Model Version 2 (CESM2), 2020, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Harmonization of global land use change and management for the period 850-2100 (LUH2) for CMIP6, 2020, Geoscientific Model Development
  • 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
  • Permafrost and Climate Change: Carbon Cycle Feedbacks From the Warming Arctic, 2022, Annual Review of Environment and Resources

David M. Lawrence has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Charles D. Koven
  • Wim Thiery
  • Danica Lombardozzi
  • Julia Pongratz
  • Victor Brovkin

Best Publications

  • Climate change and the permafrost carbon feedback

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

  • The Community Climate System Model Version 4

    Peter R. Gent;Gokhan Danabasoglu;Leo J. Donner;Marika M. Holland

  • Regions of Strong Coupling Between Soil Moisture and Precipitation

    Randal D. Koster;Paul A. Dirmeyer;Zhichang Guo;Gordon Bonan

  • The Community Earth System Model Version 2 (CESM2)

    G. Danabasoglu;J. F. Lamarque;J. Bacmeister;D. A. Bailey

  • The Community Earth System Model: A Framework for Collaborative Research

    James W. Hurrell;M. M. Holland;P. R. Gent;S. Ghan

  • The Community Earth System Model (CESM) large ensemble project: a community resource for studying climate change in the presence of internal climate variability

    Jennifer E Kay;Clara Deser;Adam S Phillips;A Mai

  • 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

  • Parameterization improvements and functional and structural advances in version 4 of the Community Land Model

    David M Lawrence;Keith W Oleson;Mark G Flanner;Peter E Thornton

  • Improvements to the Community Land Model and their impact on the hydrological cycle

    K. W. Oleson;G. Y. Niu;Zong-Liang Yang;D. M. Lawrence

  • Impacts of 1.5°C Global Warming on Natural and Human Systems

    O. Hoegh-Guldberg;D. Jacob;M. Bindi;S. Brown

  • Harmonization of global land use change and management for the period 850–2100 (LUH2) for CMIP6

    George C. Hurtt;Louise Chini;Ritvik Sahajpal;Steve Frolking

  • Carbon release through abrupt permafrost thaw

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

  • GLACE: The Global Land-Atmosphere Coupling Experiment. Part I: Overview

    Randal D. Koster;Zhichang Guo;Paul A. Dirmeyer;Gordon Bonan

  • Improving canopy processes in the Community Land Model version 4 (CLM4) using global flux fields empirically inferred from FLUXNET data

    Gordon B. Bonan;Peter J. Lawrence;Keith W. Oleson;Samuel Levis

  • Large influence of soil moisture on long-term terrestrial carbon uptake

    Julia K. Green;Sonia I. Seneviratne;Alexis M. Berg;Kirsten L. Findell

  • A projection of severe near‐surface permafrost degradation during the 21st century

    David M. Lawrence;Andrew G. Slater

  • The Seasonal Atmospheric Response to Projected Arctic Sea Ice Loss in the Late Twenty-First Century

    Clara Deser;Robert Tomas;Michael Alexander;David Lawrence

  • Improving the representation of hydrologic processes in Earth System Models

    Martyn P. Clark;Ying Fan;David M. Lawrence;Jennifer C. Adam

  • The Partitioning of Evapotranspiration into Transpiration, Soil Evaporation, and Canopy Evaporation in a GCM: Impacts on Land–Atmosphere Interaction

    David M. Lawrence;Peter E. Thornton;Keith W. Oleson;Gordon B. Bonan

  • Hillslope Hydrology in Global Change Research and Earth System Modeling

    Ying Fan;M. Clark;D. M. Lawrence;S. Swenson

  • 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

  • Observed 20th century desert dust variability: impact on climate and biogeochemistry

    Natalie Mahowald;Silvia Kloster;S. Engelstaedter;Jefferson Keith Moore

Frequent Co-Authors

Sean Swenson
Sean Swenson National Center for Atmospheric Research
Charles D. Koven
Charles D. Koven Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Keith W. Oleson
Keith W. Oleson National Center for Atmospheric Research
Andrew G. Slater
Andrew G. Slater Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
William R. Wieder
William R. Wieder National Center for Atmospheric Research
Peter J. Lawrence
Peter J. Lawrence National Center for Atmospheric Research
Victor Brovkin
Victor Brovkin Max Planck Society
Gerhard Krinner
Gerhard Krinner Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Gordon B. Bonan
Gordon B. Bonan National Center for Atmospheric Research

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