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Overview

Douglas B. Clark is affiliated with the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a notable emphasis on global and planetary change, atmospheric science, water science and technology, plant science, and environmental engineering.

The scientist's work spans multiple main and subfields, including:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Water Science and Technology
  • Plant Science
  • Environmental Engineering

Douglas B. Clark's major research topics involve the study of hydrology and watershed management, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, climate variability and modeling, greenhouse technology and climate control, plant responses to elevated CO2, flood risk assessment and management, and research on tropical and extratropical cyclones.

Their main topics of study include:

  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Climate variability and models
  • Greenhouse Technology and Climate Control
  • Plant responses to elevated CO2
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research

Frequent co-authors with whom Douglas B. Clark has collaborated include:

  • Lina M. Mercado
  • Richard J. Ellis
  • Eleanor Blyth
  • Stephen Sitch
  • Kelly M. Andersen

The scientist has published regularly in several academic venues. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • Geoscientific Model Development
  • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Current Climate Change Reports
  • Nature Communications

Some notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Douglas B. Clark are:

  • "Advances in Land Surface Modelling," 2021, Current Climate Change Reports
  • "Climate hydrology and ecology research support system meteorology dataset for Great Britain (1961-2017) [CHESS-met]," 2020, NERC Open Research Archive (Natural Environment Research Council)
  • "Nocturnal plant respiration is under strong non-temperature control," 2022, Nature Communications
  • "Improved representation of plant physiology in the JULES-vn5.6 land surface model: photosynthesis, stomatal conductance and thermal acclimation," 2022, Geoscientific Model Development
  • "Representation of the phosphorus cycle in the Joint UK Land Environment Simulator (vn5.5_JULES-CNP)," 2022, Geoscientific Model Development

Best Publications

  • Multimodel assessment of water scarcity under climate change

    Jacob Schewe;Jens Heinke;Jens Heinke;Dieter Gerten;Ingjerd Haddeland

  • The Joint UK Land Environment Simulator (JULES), model description – Part 1: Energy and water fluxes

    M. J. Best;M. Pryor;D. B. Clark;G. G. Rooney

  • 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

  • Hydrological droughts in the 21st century, hotspots and uncertainties from a global multimodel ensemble experiment

    Christel Prudhomme;Ignazio Giuntoli;Emma L. Robinson;Douglas B. Clark

  • Multimodel Estimate of the Global Terrestrial Water Balance: Setup and First Results

    Ingjerd Haddeland;Douglas B. Clark;Wietse Franssen;Fulco Ludwig

  • 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

  • Climate change impact on available water resources obtained using multiple global climate and hydrology models

    S. Hagemann;Cui Chen;D. B. Clark;S. Folwell

  • First look at changes in flood hazard in the Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project ensemble

    Rutger Dankers;Nigel W. Arnell;Douglas B. Clark;Pete D. Falloon

  • The Rhône-Aggregation Land Surface Scheme Intercomparison Project: An Overview

    Aaron A. Boone;F. Habets;J. Noilhan;D. Clark

  • Simulation of high-latitude hydrological processes in the Torne-Kalix basin: PILPS phase 2(e) - 1: Experiment description and summary intercomparisons

    Laura C. Bowling;Dennis P. Lettenmaier;Bart Nijssen;Bart Nijssen;L. Phil Graham

  • Multisectoral climate impact hotspots in a warming world

    Franziska Piontek;Christoph Müller;Thomas A.M. Pugh;Douglas B. Clark

  • Comparing Large-Scale Hydrological Model Simulations to Observed Runoff Percentiles in Europe

    Lukas Gudmundsson;Lena M. Tallaksen;Kerstin Stahl;Douglas B. Clark

  • Simulation of high latitude hydrological processes in the Torne-Kalix basin : PILPS phase 2(e) - 2: Comparison of model results with observations

    Bart Nijssen;Bart Nijssen;Laura C. Bowling;Dennis P. Lettenmaier;Douglas B. Clark

  • Advances in Land Surface Modelling

    Eleanor M. Blyth;Vivek K. Arora;Douglas B. Clark;Simon J. Dadson

  • Exploring the ecological constraints to multiple ecosystem service delivery and biodiversity

    Lindsay C. Maskell;Andrew Crowe;Michael J. Dunbar;Bridget Emmett

  • Modeling the Impact of Land Surface Degradation on the Climate of Tropical North Africa

    Douglas B. Clark;Yongkang Xue;Richard J. Harding;Paul J. Valdes

  • A comprehensive set of benchmark tests for a land surface model of simultaneous fluxes of water and carbon at both the global and seasonal scale

    E. Blyth;D. B. Clark;R. Ellis;C. Huntingford

  • Comparing projections of future changes in runoff from hydrological and biome models in ISI-MIP

    J. C. S. Davie;P. D. Falloon;R. Kahana;R. Dankers

  • How Well Do Large-Scale Models Reproduce Regional Hydrological Extremes in Europe?

    Christel Prudhomme;Simon Parry;Jamie Hannaford;Douglas B. Clark

  • Large sensitivity in land carbon storage due to geographical and temporal variation in the thermal response of photosynthetic capacity.

    Lina M. Mercado;Belinda E. Medlyn;Belinda E. Medlyn;Chris Huntingford;Rebecca J. Oliver

  • A multi-model analysis of risk of ecosystem shifts under climate change

    Lila Warszawski;Andrew Friend;Sebastian Ostberg;Katja Frieler

Frequent Co-Authors

Jens Heinke
Jens Heinke Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Simon N. Gosling
Simon N. Gosling University of Nottingham
Andrew D. Friend
Andrew D. Friend University of Cambridge
Dominik Wisser
Dominik Wisser University of Bonn
Pete Falloon
Pete Falloon Met Office
Mark R. Lomas
Mark R. Lomas University of Sheffield
Balázs M. Fekete
Balázs M. Fekete City College of New York
Simon Dadson
Simon Dadson University of Oxford
Stefan Hagemann
Stefan Hagemann Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials and Coastal Research
Qiuhong Tang
Qiuhong Tang Chinese Academy of Sciences

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