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Overview

Forrest M. Hoffman was a researcher affiliated with Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the United States. Their scientific work primarily focused on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a significant number of publications in the subfields of global and planetary change, atmospheric science, environmental engineering, ecology, and soil science.

Their research covered a range of main topics including atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, climate variability and models, climate change and permafrost, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, cryospheric studies and observations, and peatlands and wetlands ecology.

Hoffman contributed to multiple publications, with some of the recent notable papers including:

  • Spatial heterogeneity and environmental predictors of permafrost region soil organic carbon stocks, 2021, Science Advances
  • The DOE E3SM v1.1 Biogeochemistry Configuration: Description and Simulated Ecosystem-Climate Responses to Historical Changes in Forcing, 2020, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Potential ecological impacts of climate intervention by reflecting sunlight to cool Earth, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Mapping crops within the growing season across the United States, 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Beyond ecosystem modeling: A roadmap to community cyberinfrastructure for ecological data-model integration, 2020, Global Change Biology

Frequent coauthors working alongside Hoffman included:

  • Jitendra Kumar
  • Jiafu Mao
  • Xiaoying Shi
  • Nathan Collier
  • William W. Hargrove

Hoffman published regularly in a variety of scientific venues, with the most frequent publication venues being:

  • Biogeosciences
  • Nature Communications
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Best Publications

  • Global Carbon Budget 2018

    Corinne Le Quéré;Robbie M. Andrew;Pierre Friedlingstein;Stephen Sitch

  • Technical Description of version 4.0 of the Community Land Model (CLM)

    W. Oleson;M. Lawrence;B. Bonan;G. Flanner

  • 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

  • Technical Description of the Community Land Model (CLM)

    Keith Oleson;Yongjiu Dai;B. Bonan;Mike Bosilovichm

  • Causes of variation in soil carbon simulations from CMIP5 Earth system models and comparison with observations

    K. E. O. Todd-Brown;J. T. Randerson;W. M. Post;F. M. Hoffman;F. M. Hoffman

  • Global Carbon and other Biogeochemical Cycles and Feedbacks

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

  • Taking climate model evaluation to the next level

    Veronika Eyring;Veronika Eyring;Peter M. Cox;Gregory M. Flato;Peter J. Gleckler

  • CTFS-ForestGEO: A worldwide network monitoring forests in an era of global change

    Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Stuart J. Davies;Stuart J. Davies;Amy C. Bennett;Erika B. Gonzalez-Akre

  • 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

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

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

  • The Community Land Model and Its Climate Statistics as a Component of the Community Climate System Model

    Robert Earl Dickinson;Keith W. Oleson;Gordon Bonan;Forrest Hoffman

  • Sustained climate warming drives declining marine biological productivity.

    J. Keith Moore;Weiwei Fu;Francois Primeau;Gregory L. Britten

  • The International Land Model Benchmarking (ILAMB) System: Design, Theory, and Implementation

    Nathan Collier;Forrest M. Hoffman;Forrest M. Hoffman;David M. Lawrence;Gretchen Keppel-Aleks

  • A continental strategy for the National Ecological Observatory Network

    Michael Keller;David S Schimel;William W Hargrove;Forrest M Hoffman

  • Potential of Multivariate Quantitative Methods for Delineation and Visualization of Ecoregions

    William W. Hargrove;Forrest M. Hoffman

  • Systematic assessment of terrestrial biogeochemistry in coupled climate-carbon models

    James T. Randerson;Forrest M. Hoffman;Peter Edmond Thornton;Peter Edmond Thornton;Natalie M. Mahowald

  • Spatial heterogeneity and environmental predictors of permafrost region soil organic carbon stocks

    Umakant Mishra;Gustaf Hugelius;Eitan Shelef;Yuanhe Yang

  • A framework for benchmarking land models

    Yiqi Luo;J. Randerson;G. Abramowitz;C. Bacour

  • C4MIP – The Coupled Climate–Carbon Cycle Model Intercomparison Project: Experimental protocol for CMIP6

    Chris D. Jones;Vivek K. Arora;Pierre Friedlingstein;Laurent Bopp

  • Photoperiodic regulation of the seasonal pattern of photosynthetic capacity and the implications for carbon cycling

    William L. Bauerle;Ram Oren;Danielle A. Way;Song S. Qian

  • North American Carbon Program (NACP) regional interim synthesis: Terrestrial biospheric model intercomparison

    D. N. Huntzinger;W. M. Post;Y. Wei;A. M. Michalak

Frequent Co-Authors

William W. Hargrove
William W. Hargrove US Forest Service
Peter E. Thornton
Peter E. Thornton Oak Ridge National Laboratory
James T. Randerson
James T. Randerson University of California, Irvine
Xiaoying Shi
Xiaoying Shi Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Jiafu Mao
Jiafu Mao Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Daniel M. Ricciuto
Daniel M. Ricciuto Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Charles D. Koven
Charles D. Koven Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Keith Lindsay
Keith Lindsay National Center for Atmospheric Research
David J. Erickson
David J. Erickson Oak Ridge National Laboratory
William J. Riley
William J. Riley Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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