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Overview

Julia Pongratz is affiliated with Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a significant number of publications addressing global and planetary change.

The scientist's work spans several subfields, including:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Mechanical Engineering

The main topics covered in their research include:

  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Climate variability and models
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Climate Change Policy and Economics
  • Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies
  • Environmental Impact and Sustainability

Julia Pongratz has authored and co-authored multiple papers, several of which contribute to the understanding of global carbon budgets published in "Earth system science data". Notable recent publications include:

  • Global Carbon Budget 2020 (2020) - Earth system science data
  • Global Carbon Budget 2022 (2022) - Earth system science data
  • Global Carbon Budget 2021 (2022) - Earth system science data
  • Global Carbon Budget 2023 (2023) - Earth system science data
  • A review of trends and drivers of greenhouse gas emissions by sector from 1990 to 2018 (2021) - Environmental Research Letters

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Julia Pongratz include:

  • Pierre Friedlingstein
  • Stephen Sitch
  • Philippe Ciais
  • Robbie M. Andrew
  • Glen P. Peters

Publication venues where Julia Pongratz's work frequently appears include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Earth system science data
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Earth System Dynamics
  • Biogeosciences

Best Publications

  • Anthropogenic and Natural Radiative Forcing

    Gunnar Myhre;Drew Shindell;Julia Pongratz

  • Global Carbon Budget 2018

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

  • Global Carbon Budget 2020

    Pierre Friedlingstein;Pierre Friedlingstein;Michael O'Sullivan;Matthew W. Jones;Robbie M. Andrew

  • Global Carbon Budget 2019

    Pierre Friedlingstein;Pierre Friedlingstein;Matthew W. Jones;Michael O'Sullivan;Robbie Andrew

  • Carbon emissions from land use and land-cover change

    Richard A. Houghton;J.I. House;J. Pongratz;J. Pongratz;G. R. van der Werf

  • Developments in the MPI-M Earth System Model version 1.2 (MPI-ESM1.2) and Its Response to Increasing CO2.

    Thorsten Mauritsen;Thorsten Mauritsen;Jürgen Bader;Tobias Becker;Jörg Behrens

  • Global Carbon Budget 2017

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

  • Global Carbon Budget 2023

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  • A review of trends and drivers of greenhouse gas emissions by sector from 1990 to 2018

    William F. Lamb;Thomas Wiedmann;Julia Pongratz;Robbie Andrew

  • 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

  • Global Carbon and other Biogeochemical Cycles and Feedbacks

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

  • Unexpectedly large impact of forest management and grazing on global vegetation biomass

    Karl Heinz Erb;Thomas Kastner;Christoph Plutzar;Christoph Plutzar;Anna Liza S. Bais

  • A reconstruction of global agricultural areas and land cover for the last millennium

    Julia Pongratz;C. Reick;T. Raddatz;Martin Claussen;Martin Claussen

  • Scaling carbon fluxes from eddy covariance sites to globe: synthesis and evaluation of the FLUXCOM approach

    Martin Jung;Christopher Schwalm;Mirco Migliavacca;Sophia Walther

  • Land management and land-cover change have impacts of similar magnitude on surface temperature

    Sebastiaan Luyssaert;Mathilde Jammet;Paul C. Stoy;Stephen Estel

  • Integrating the evidence for a terrestrial carbon sink caused by increasing atmospheric CO2

    Anthony P. Walker;Martin G. De Kauwe;Ana Bastos;Soumaya Belmecheri

  • The drivers and impacts of Amazon forest degradation

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  • 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

  • Global and regional drivers of land-use emissions in 1961–2017

    Chaopeng Hong;Jennifer A. Burney;Julia Pongratz;Julia Pongratz;Julia E. M. S. Nabel

  • Climate forcing reconstructions for use in PMIP simulations of the last millennium (v1.0)

    G. A. Schmidt;Johann H. Jungclaus;C. M. Ammann;Edouard Bard

  • Historical carbon dioxide emissions caused by land-use changes are possibly larger than assumed

    Almut Arneth;Stephen Sitch;Julia Pongratz;B. D. Stocker

  • The Land Use Model Intercomparison Project (LUMIP) contribution to CMIP6:rationale and experimental design

    David M. Lawrence;George C. Hurtt;Almut Arneth;Victor Brovkin

  • Scaling carbon fluxes from eddy covariance sites to globe: Synthesis and evaluation of the FLUXCOM approach. In open review for Biogeosciences. doi 10.5194/bg-2019-368

    Martin Jung;Christopher Schwalm;Mirco Migliavacca;Sophia Walther

Frequent Co-Authors

Christian Reick
Christian Reick Max Planck Society
Julia E. M. S. Nabel
Julia E. M. S. Nabel Max Planck Society
Stephen Sitch
Stephen Sitch University of Exeter
Pierre Friedlingstein
Pierre Friedlingstein University of Exeter
Victor Brovkin
Victor Brovkin Max Planck Society
Martin Claussen
Martin Claussen Universität Hamburg
Thomas Raddatz
Thomas Raddatz Max Planck Society
Almut Arneth
Almut Arneth Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Sönke Zaehle
Sönke Zaehle Max Planck Society
Kees Klein Goldewijk
Kees Klein Goldewijk Utrecht University

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