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Ramdane Alkama

Ramdane Alkama

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
35
Citations
8794
World Ranking
9222
National Ranking
291

Overview

Ramdane Alkama is affiliated with the Joint Research Center in Spain and specializes in Environmental Science, with a notable focus on Global and Planetary Change. Their research contributions span several subfields, including Atmospheric Science, Plant Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Environmental Engineering.

The scientist's main topics of work include:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Hydrology and Drought Analysis
  • Plant responses to elevated CO2
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Cryospheric studies and observations

Ramdane Alkama has contributed to a range of scientific publications. Some recent papers include:

  • Global Carbon Budget 2022, 2022, Earth system science data
  • Recent global decline of CO2 fertilization effects on vegetation photosynthesis, 2020, Science
  • Emerging signals of declining forest resilience under climate change, 2022, Nature
  • Increased control of vegetation on global terrestrial energy fluxes, 2020, Nature Climate Change
  • Critical adjustment of land mitigation pathways for assessing countries' climate progress, 2021, Nature Climate Change

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Alessandro Cescatti
  • Philippe Ciais
  • Pierre Friedlingstein
  • Julia Pongratz
  • Stephen Sitch

Ramdane Alkama's publications are often found in the following venues:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature Communications
  • Earth system science data
  • Science
  • Nature Climate Change

Best Publications

  • The CNRM-CM5.1 global climate model: description and basic evaluation

    A. Voldoire;E. Sanchez-Gomez;D. Salas y Mélia;B. Decharme

  • Biophysical climate impacts of recent changes in global forest cover

    Ramdane Alkama;Alessandro Cescatti

  • The SURFEXv7.2 land and ocean surface platform for coupled or offline simulation of earth surface variables and fluxes

    V. Masson;P. Le Moigne;E. Martin;S. Faroux

  • Recent global decline of CO2 fertilization effects on vegetation photosynthesis

    Songhan Wang;Songhan Wang;Yongguang Zhang;Yongguang Zhang;Yongguang Zhang;Weimin Ju;Weimin Ju;Jing M. Chen;Jing M. Chen

  • Air temperature optima of vegetation productivity across global biomes.

    Mengtian Huang;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Philippe Ciais;Josep Peñuelas

  • Satellites reveal contrasting responses of regional climate to the widespread greening of Earth

    Giovanni Forzieri;Ramdane Alkama;Diego G. Miralles;Alessandro Cescatti

  • Increased control of vegetation on global terrestrial energy fluxes

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

  • Anthropogenic influence on multidecadal changes in reconstructed global evapotranspiration

    H. Douville;A. Ribes;B. Decharme;R. Alkama

  • Reconciling global-model estimates and country reporting of anthropogenic forest CO2 sinks

    Giacomo Grassi;Jo House;Werner A. Kurz;Alessandro Cescatti

  • Vegetation-based climate mitigation in a warmer and greener World

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  • Critical adjustment of land mitigation pathways for assessing countries’ climate progress

    Giacomo Grassi;Elke Stehfest;Joeri Rogelj;Joeri Rogelj;Detlef van Vuuren;Detlef van Vuuren

  • Global off-line evaluation of the ISBA-TRIP flood model

    B. Decharme;R. Alkama;F. Papa;F. Papa;S. Faroux

  • Variability in the sensitivity among model simulations of permafrost and carbon dynamics in the permafrost region between 1960 and 2009

    A. David McGuire;Charles Koven;David M. Lawrence;Joy S. Clein

  • Global Evaluation of the ISBA-TRIP Continental Hydrological System. Part II: Uncertainties in River Routing Simulation Related to Flow Velocity and Groundwater Storage

    B. Decharme;R. Alkama;H. Douville;M. Becker

  • The Global Land Carbon Cycle Simulated With ISBA-CTRIP: Improvements Over the Last Decade

    Christine Delire;Roland Séférian;Bertrand Decharme;Ramdane Alkama

  • Global Evaluation of the ISBA-TRIP Continental Hydrological System. Part I: Comparison to GRACE Terrestrial Water Storage Estimates and In Situ River Discharges

    R. Alkama;B. Decharme;H. Douville;M. Becker

  • Terrestrial Waters and Sea Level Variations on Interannual Time Scale

    W. Llovel;M. Becker;A. Cazenave;S. Jevrejeva

  • Impact of Freshwater Release in the North Atlantic under Different Climate Conditions in an OAGCM

    Didier Swingedouw;Juliette Mignot;Pascale Braconnot;Eloi Mosquet

  • Trends in Global and Basin-Scale Runoff over the Late Twentieth Century: Methodological Issues and Sources of Uncertainty

    R. Alkama;B. Decharme;H. Douville;A. Ribes

  • Quantifying the roles of ocean circulation and biogeochemistry in governing ocean carbon-13 and atmospheric carbon dioxide at the last glacial maximum

    A. Tagliabue;L. Bopp;D.M.V.A.P. Roche;D.M.V.A.P. Roche;N. Bouttes

  • Revealing the widespread potential of forests to increase low level cloud cover

    Gregory Duveiller;Federico Filipponi;Andrej Ceglar;Jędrzej Bojanowski

  • Detection of global runoff changes: results from observations and CMIP5 experiments

    R. Alkama;L. Marchand;A. Ribes;B. Decharme

Frequent Co-Authors

Bertrand Decharme
Bertrand Decharme Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Hervé Douville
Hervé Douville Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Alessandro Cescatti
Alessandro Cescatti European Union
Aurore Voldoire
Aurore Voldoire Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Christine Delire
Christine Delire Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Annette Rinke
Annette Rinke Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Stephen Sitch
Stephen Sitch University of Exeter
Sophie Szopa
Sophie Szopa Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University
Christophe Cassou
Christophe Cassou Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Gurvan Madec
Gurvan Madec Sorbonne University

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