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1976

Overview

Peter J. Lawrence is affiliated with the National Center for Atmospheric Research in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with significant contributions across several subfields including global and planetary change, atmospheric science, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, economics and econometrics, and plant science.

The scientist's work addresses a range of topics related to climate and environmental studies. The main topics covered include climate variability and models, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, climate change impacts on agriculture, science and climate studies, meteorological phenomena and simulations, and climate change policy and economics.

Peter J. Lawrence has published extensively with a variety of frequent co-authors. Those most often collaborating with them are David M. Lawrence, Julia Pongratz, Monica Ainhorn Morrison, Louise Chini, and Danica Lombardozzi. The venues where their research appears often include leading journals such as Geoscientific Model Development, Science, Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, and Journal of Climate.

Their recent notable papers include the following:

  • Harmonization of global land use change and management for the period 850-2100 (LUH2) for CMIP6, 2020, Geoscientific Model Development
  • The drivers and impacts of Amazon forest degradation, 2023, Science
  • Increased control of vegetation on global terrestrial energy fluxes, 2020, Nature Climate Change
  • Simulating Agriculture in the Community Land Model Version 5, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • Global climate response to idealized deforestation in CMIP6 models, 2020, Biogeosciences

Best Publications

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Representing a new MODIS consistent land surface in the Community Land Model (CLM 3.0)

    Peter J. Lawrence;Thomas N. Chase

  • Improving canopy processes in the Community Land Model version 4 (CLM4) using global flux fields empirically inferred from FLUXNET data

    Gordon B. Bonan;Peter J. Lawrence;Keith W. Oleson;Samuel Levis

  • Vegetation demographics in Earth System Models: A review of progress and priorities.

    Rosie A. Fisher;Charles D. Koven;William R. L. Anderegg;Bradley O. Christoffersen

  • Uncertainties in climate responses to past land cover change: First results from the LUCID intercomparison study

    A. J. Pitman;N. de Noblet-Ducoudré;F. T. Cruz;E. L. Davin;E. L. Davin

  • The drivers and impacts of Amazon forest degradation

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

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

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

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  • Determining Robust Impacts of Land-Use-Induced Land Cover Changes on Surface Climate over North America and Eurasia: Results from the First Set of LUCID Experiments

    N de Noblet-Ducoudre;J.P. Boisier;A. Pitman;G.B. Bonan

  • Impacts of land use/land cover change on climate and future research priorities

    Rezaul Mahmood;Roger A. Pielke;Kenneth G. Hubbard;Dev Niyogi

  • The CCSM4 Land Simulation, 1850-2005: Assessment of Surface Climate and New Capabilities

    David M. Lawrence;Keith W. Oleson;Mark G. Flanner;Christopher G. Fletcher

  • Global Gridded Crop Model evaluation: benchmarking, skills, deficiencies and implications

    Christoph Müller;Joshua Elliott;Joshua Elliott;James Chryssanthacopoulos;James Chryssanthacopoulos;Almut Arneth

  • Increased control of vegetation on global terrestrial energy fluxes

    Giovanni Forzieri;Diego G. Miralles;Philippe Ciais;Ramdane Alkama

  • State-of-the-art global models underestimate impacts from climate extremes

    Jacob Schewe;Simon N. Gosling;Christopher Reyer;Fang Zhao

  • Last Millennium Climate and Its Variability in CCSM4

    Laura Landrum;Bette L. Otto-Bliesner;Eugene R. Wahl;Andrew Conley

  • Taking off the training wheels: the properties of a dynamic vegetation model without climate envelopes, CLM4.5(ED)

    R. A. Fisher;S. Muszala;M. Verteinstein;P. Lawrence

  • Simulating the Biogeochemical and Biogeophysical Impacts of Transient Land Cover Change and Wood Harvest in the Community Climate System Model (CCSM4) from 1850 to 2100

    Peter J. Lawrence;Johannes J. Feddema;Gordon B. Bonan;Gerald A. Meehl

  • Investigating the climate impacts of global land cover change in the community climate system model

    Peter J. Lawrence;Thomas N. Chase

  • Fire dynamics during the 20th century simulated by the Community Land Model

    Silvia Kloster;Silvia Kloster;Natalie Mahowald;Jim Randerson;Peter E Thornton

Frequent Co-Authors

David M. Lawrence
David M. Lawrence National Center for Atmospheric Research
Julia Pongratz
Julia Pongratz Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Almut Arneth
Almut Arneth Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Xuhui Wang
Xuhui Wang Peking University
Thomas A. M. Pugh
Thomas A. M. Pugh University of Birmingham
Joshua Elliott
Joshua Elliott University of Chicago
Christian Folberth
Christian Folberth International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Delphine Deryng
Delphine Deryng Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Alex C. Ruane
Alex C. Ruane Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Roberto C. Izaurralde
Roberto C. Izaurralde University of Maryland, College Park

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