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2026

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
  • 2019 - Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA)
  • 2013 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Gordon B. Bonan is affiliated with the National Center for Atmospheric Research in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, especially in the subfields of global and planetary change, atmospheric science, and plant science.

Their work addresses several main topics, including:

  • Plant water relations and carbon dynamics
  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Climate variability and models
  • Atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics
  • Plant responses to elevated CO2
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Earth systems and cosmic evolution

Gordon B. Bonan has contributed numerous publications, with frequent appearances in venues such as Global Change Biology, Geoscientific Model Development, Geophysical Research Letters, AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, and Agricultural and Forest Meteorology.

Selected recent papers authored by Bonan include:

  • "Moving beyond the incorrect but useful paradigm: reevaluating big-leaf and multilayer plant canopies to model biosphere-atmosphere fluxes - a review" (2021), Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • "Reimagining Earth in the Earth System" (2024), Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Bonan are:

  • Danica Lombardozzi
  • William R. Wieder
  • David M. Lawrence
  • Abigail L. S. Swann
  • Jeffrey S. Dukes

Bonan has also authored book publications, notably with Cambridge University Press, including the book "Seeing the Forest for the Trees" published in 2023.

Recognition for their work includes being named a Fellow of the Ecological Society of America in 2019 and a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2013.

Best Publications

  • Global Consequences of Land Use

    Jonathan A. Foley;Ruth DeFries;Gregory P. Asner;Carol Barford

  • Forests and Climate Change: Forcings, Feedbacks, and the Climate Benefits of Forests

    Gordon B. Bonan

  • Regions of Strong Coupling Between Soil Moisture and Precipitation

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

  • Terrestrial Gross Carbon Dioxide Uptake: Global Distribution and Covariation with Climate

    Christian Beer;Markus Reichstein;Enrico Tomelleri;Philippe Ciais

  • The Community Climate System Model Version 3 (CCSM3)

    William D. Collins;Cecilia M. Bitz;Maurice L. Blackmon;Gordon B. Bonan

  • Recent decline in the global land evapotranspiration trend due to limited moisture supply

    Martin Jung;Markus Reichstein;Philippe Ciais;Sonia I. Seneviratne

  • 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

  • Ecological Climatology: Concepts and Applications

    Gordon B. Bonan

  • 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

  • The Common Land Model

    Yongjiu Dai;Xubin Zeng;Robert E. Dickinson;Ian Baker

  • The National Center for Atmospheric Research Community Climate Model: CCM3*

    J. T. Kiehl;J. J. Hack;G. B. Bonan;B. A. Boville

  • The Importance of Land-Cover Change in Simulating Future Climates

    Johannes J. Feddema;Johannes J. Feddema;Keith W. Oleson;Keith W. Oleson;Gordon B. Bonan;Gordon B. Bonan;Linda O. Mearns;Linda O. Mearns

  • Effects of boreal forest vegetation on global climate

    Gordon B. Bonan;David Pollard;Starley L. Thompson

  • Environmental Factors and Ecological Processes in Boreal Forests

    Gordon B. Bonan;Herman H. Shugart

  • 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

  • Global soil carbon projections are improved by modelling microbial processes

    William R. Wieder;Gordon B. Bonan;Steven D. Allison

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

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

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

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

  • Managing uncertainty in soil carbon feedbacks to climate change

    Mark A. Bradford;William R. Wieder;William R. Wieder;Gordon B. Bonan;Noah Fierer;Noah Fierer

  • The land surface climatology of the community land model coupled to the NCAR community climate model

    Gordon B. Bonan;Keith W. Oleson;Mariana Vertenstein;Samuel Levis

  • Carbon–Concentration and Carbon–Climate Feedbacks in CMIP5 Earth System Models

    Vivek K. Arora;George J. Boer;Pierre Friedlingstein;Michael Eby

Frequent Co-Authors

Keith W. Oleson
Keith W. Oleson National Center for Atmospheric Research
William R. Wieder
William R. Wieder National Center for Atmospheric Research
Samuel Levis
Samuel Levis National Center for Atmospheric Research
Danica Lombardozzi
Danica Lombardozzi National Center for Atmospheric Research
David M. Lawrence
David M. Lawrence National Center for Atmospheric Research
Peter E. Thornton
Peter E. Thornton Oak Ridge National Laboratory
James T. Randerson
James T. Randerson University of California, Irvine
Forrest M. Hoffman
Forrest M. Hoffman Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peter J. Lawrence
Peter J. Lawrence National Center for Atmospheric Research
Scott C. Doney
Scott C. Doney University of Virginia

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