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47590
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National Ranking
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Overview

Louise Chini is affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and encompasses several specialized subfields, including global and planetary change, atmospheric science, ecology, nature and landscape conservation, and economics and econometrics.

Their work covers a variety of main topics, such as atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, climate variability and models, atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, land use and ecosystem services, remote sensing in agriculture, forest management and policy, and fire effects on ecosystems.

Louise Chini has contributed to multiple peer-reviewed papers, several of which have been published in notable venues. Recent publications include:

  • Global Carbon Budget 2023, 2023, 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 2020, 2020, Earth system science data
  • Pervasive shifts in forest dynamics in a changing world, 2020, Science

These publications often involve collaboration with frequent coauthors, including G. C. Hurtt, Julia Pongratz, Benjamin Poulter, Kees Klein Goldewijk, and Stephen Sitch. Their research contributions have been disseminated largely through venues such as Earth system science data, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Science, Geoscientific model development, and Earth System Dynamics.

Louise Chini has extensively engaged with research on global carbon budgets, climate variability, and the interactions between land use and ecosystem services. Their expertise combines atmospheric science with ecology and economics, reflecting an interdisciplinary approach to understanding environmental change.

Best Publications

  • High-Resolution Global Maps of 21st-Century Forest Cover Change

    M.C. Hansen;P.V. Potapov;R. Moore;M. Hancher

  • Global Carbon Budget 2016

    Corinne Le Quere;Robbie M. Andrew;Josep G. Canadell;Stephen Sitch

  • Global Carbon Budget 2015

    C. Le Quéré;R. Moriarty;R. M. Andrew;J. G. Canadell

  • Global carbon budget 2014

    C. Le Quéré;R. Moriarty;R. M. Andrew;G. P. Peters

  • Global carbon budget 2013

    C. Le Quere;G.P. Peters;R.J. Andres;Robbie M Andrew

  • Global Carbon Budget 2018

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

  • Scenarios for global biodiversity in the 21st Century

    Henrique M. Pereira;Paul W. Leadley;Vania Proenca;Rob Alkemade

  • 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

  • Harmonization of land-use scenarios for the period 1500–2100: 600 years of global gridded annual land-use transitions, wood harvest, and resulting secondary lands

    G. C. Hurtt;G. C. Hurtt;L. P. Chini;S. Frolking;R. A. Betts

  • Global Carbon Budget 2017

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

  • Global Carbon Budget 2023

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  • Pervasive shifts in forest dynamics in a changing world

    Nate G. McDowell;Craig D. Allen;Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Brian H. Aukema

  • 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

  • The HadGEM2-ES implementation of CMIP5 centennial simulations

    C. D. Jones;J. K. Hughes;Nicolas Bellouin;S. C. Hardiman

  • Assessing the impacts of 1.5 °C global warming - simulation protocol of the Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (ISIMIP2b)

    Katja Frieler;Stefan Lange;Franziska Piontek;Christopher P. O. Reyer

  • Terrestrial and Inland Water Systems

    Josef Settele;Robert Scholes;Richard A Betts;Stuart Bunn

  • The drivers and impacts of Amazon forest degradation

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

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

  • Harmonization of Global Land-Use Change and Management for the Period 850–2100 (LUH2) for CMIP6

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  • Effect of Anthropogenic Land-Use and Land-Cover Changes on Climate and Land Carbon Storage in CMIP5 Projections for the Twenty-First Century

    V. Brovkin;Lena R. Boysen;Vivek K. Arora;J. P. Boisier

  • A global view of shifting cultivation: Recent, current, and future extent

    Andrew Heinimann;Ole Mertz;Stephen E. Frolking;Andreas Egelund Christensen

  • Future habitat loss and extinctions driven by land-use change in biodiversity hotspots under four scenarios of climate-change mitigation.

    Samuel M. Jantz;Brian Barker;Thomas M. Brooks;Louise P. Chini

Frequent Co-Authors

George C. Hurtt
George C. Hurtt University of Maryland, College Park
Kees Klein Goldewijk
Kees Klein Goldewijk Utrecht University
Julia Pongratz
Julia Pongratz Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Benjamin Poulter
Benjamin Poulter Goddard Space Flight Center
Steve Frolking
Steve Frolking University of New Hampshire
Peter E. Thornton
Peter E. Thornton Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Allison M. Thomson
Allison M. Thomson University of Maryland, College Park
Stephen Sitch
Stephen Sitch University of Exeter
Pierre Friedlingstein
Pierre Friedlingstein University of Exeter
Katherine Calvin
Katherine Calvin Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

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