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M. Altaf Arain

M. Altaf Arain

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
69
Citations
22581
World Ranking
1745
National Ranking
61

Overview

M. Altaf Arain is affiliated with McMaster University in Canada, focusing predominantly on Environmental Science. Their research encompasses a range of interrelated subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, and Water Science and Technology.

Their scholarly output spans numerous topics with particular emphasis on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Forest Ecology and Management, Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Tree-Ring Climate Responses, Climate Variability and Models, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, and Fire Effects on Ecosystems.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • Ecological Processes
  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • Hydrological Processes

Co-authorship collaborations have been established with several recurring authors, notably:

  • T. Andrew Black
  • Ankur R. Desai
  • Peter D. Blanken
  • Gil Bohrer
  • Rosvel Bracho

Representing a sample of their recent publications, the following papers illustrate the scope and focus of their work:

  • The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data (2020) published in Scientific Data
  • Representativeness of Eddy-Covariance flux footprints for areas surrounding AmeriFlux sites (2021) published in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Cross-biome synthesis of source versus sink limits to tree growth (2022) published in Science
  • Global transpiration data from sap flow measurements: the SAPFLUXNET database (2021) published in Earth System Science Data
  • Author Correction: The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data (2021) published in Scientific Data

Best Publications

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

    Christian Beer;Markus Reichstein;Enrico Tomelleri;Philippe Ciais

  • The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data

    Gilberto Pastorello;Carlo Trotta;Eleonora Canfora;Housen Chu

  • Global patterns of land-atmosphere fluxes of carbon dioxide, latent heat, and sensible heat derived from eddy covariance, satellite, and meteorological observations

    Martin Jung;Markus Reichstein;Hank A. Margolis;Alessandro Cescatti

  • Predicting carbon dioxide and energy fluxes across global FLUXNET sites with regression algorithms

    Gianluca Tramontana;Martin Jung;Christopher R. Schwalm;Kazuhito Ichii

  • Terrestrial biosphere models need better representation of vegetation phenology: results from the North American Carbon Program Site Synthesis

    Andrew D. Richardson;Ryan S. Anderson;M. Altaf Arain;Alan G. Barr

  • A data-driven analysis of energy balance closure across FLUXNET research sites: The role of landscape-scale heterogeneity

    Paul C. Stoy;Matthias Mauder;Thomas Foken;Barbara Marcolla

  • Global Convergence in the Temperature Sensitivity of Respiration at Ecosystem Level

    Miguel D. Mahecha;Markus Reichstein;Nuno Carvalhais;Gitta Lasslop

  • A model-data comparison of gross primary productivity: Results from the North American Carbon Program site synthesis

    Kevin Schaefer;Christopher R. Schwalm;Chris Williams;M. Altaf Arain

  • Representativeness of Eddy-Covariance flux footprints for areas surrounding AmeriFlux sites

    Housen Chu;Xiangzhong Luo;Xiangzhong Luo;Zutao Ouyang;W. Stephen Chan

  • Solar‐induced chlorophyll fluorescence is strongly correlated with terrestrial photosynthesis for a wide variety of biomes: First global analysis based on OCO‐2 and flux tower observations

    Xing Li;Xing Li;Jingfeng Xiao;Binbin He;M. Altaf Arain

  • Correlation of nitrogen dioxide with other traffic pollutants near a major expressway

    Bernardo Beckerman;Michael Jerrett;Michael Jerrett;Jeffrey R Brook;Dave K Verma

  • Allometry and partitioning of above- and belowground tree biomass in an age-sequence of white pine forests

    Matthias Peichl;M. Altaf Arain

  • Above- and belowground ecosystem biomass and carbon pools in an age-sequence of temperate pine plantation forests

    Matthias Peichl;M. Altaf Arain

  • Global comparison of light use efficiency models for simulating terrestrial vegetation gross primary production based on the LaThuile database

    Wenping Yuan;Wenwen Cai;Jiangzhou Xia;Jiquan Chen

  • ECOSTRESS: NASA's Next Generation Mission to Measure Evapotranspiration From the International Space Station

    Joshua B. Fisher;Brian Lee;Adam J. Purdy;Gregory H. Halverson

  • How climate and vegetation type influence evapotranspiration and water use efficiency in Canadian forest, peatland and grassland ecosystems

    Christian Brümmer;T. Andrew Black;Rachhpal S. Jassal;Nicholas J. Grant

  • Establishing an air pollution monitoring network for intra-urban population exposure assessment: A location-allocation approach

    Pavlos S. Kanaroglou;Michael Jerrett;Jason Morrison;Bernardo Beckerman

  • A model‐data intercomparison of CO2 exchange across North America: Results from the North American Carbon Program site synthesis

    Christopher R. Schwalm;Christopher A. Williams;Kevin Schaefer;Ryan S. Anderson

  • Modeling the intraurban variability of ambient traffic pollution in Toronto, Canada.

    M Jerrett;M A Arain;P Kanaroglou;B Beckerman

  • A cohort study of traffic-related air pollution and mortality in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

    Michael Jerrett;Murray M. Finkelstein;Jeffrey R. Brook;M. Altaf Arain

Frequent Co-Authors

Matthias Peichl
Matthias Peichl Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Hank A. Margolis
Hank A. Margolis National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Ankur R. Desai
Ankur R. Desai University of Wisconsin–Madison
Leonardo Montagnani
Leonardo Montagnani Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Jiquan Chen
Jiquan Chen Michigan State University
Lutz Merbold
Lutz Merbold Agroscope
Alan G. Barr
Alan G. Barr University of Saskatchewan
Alessandro Cescatti
Alessandro Cescatti European Union
Jing M. Chen
Jing M. Chen University of Toronto
Natalia Restrepo-Coupe
Natalia Restrepo-Coupe University of Technology Sydney

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