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Environmental Sciences

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120
Citations
114241
World Ranking
121
National Ranking
55

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
  • 2012 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Richard A. Houghton is affiliated with the Woods Hole Research Center in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on Environmental Science, with a significant number of publications addressing Global and Planetary Change, as well as related subfields such as Economics and Econometrics, Atmospheric Science, Mechanical Engineering, and Environmental Engineering.

The scientist's main topics of work include Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Climate Change Policy and Economics, Atmospheric Chemistry and Aerosols, Climate Variability and Models, Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies, Forest Management and Policy, and Fire Effects on Ecosystems.

Frequent co-authors in their publications are Julia Pongratz, Philippe Ciais, Giacomo Grassi, Pierre Friedlingstein, and Thomas Gasser.

Richard A. Houghton has published articles in several venues, with a strong presence in Earth System Science Data and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). Other notable publication venues include Nature, Wageningen University and Researchcenter Publications, and Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature.

Their recent papers 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
  • Global Maps of Twenty-First Century Forest Carbon Fluxes, 2021, Nature Climate Change

Richard A. Houghton was recognized with the award of Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2012.

Best Publications

  • A Large and Persistent Carbon Sink in the World’s Forests

    Yude Pan;Richard A. Birdsey;Jingyun Fang;Jingyun Fang;Richard Houghton

  • Use of U.S. Croplands for Biofuels Increases Greenhouse Gases Through Emissions from Land-Use Change

    Timothy Searchinger;Ralph Heimlich;R. A. Houghton;Fengxia Dong

  • Carbon pools and flux of global forest ecosystems.

    R. K. Dixon;A. M. Solomon;S. Brown;R. A. Houghton

  • Global Carbon Budget 2016

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

  • Natural climate solutions

    Bronson W. Griscom;Bronson W. Griscom;Justin Adams;Peter W. Ellis;Richard A. Houghton

  • Global Carbon Budget 2015

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

  • Contributions to accelerating atmospheric CO2 growth from economic activity, carbon intensity, and efficiency of natural sinks

    Josep G. Canadell;Corinne Le Quéré;Michael R. Raupach;Christopher B. Field

  • 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

  • Trends in the sources and sinks of carbon dioxide

    Corinne Le Quéré;Corinne Le Quéré;Michael R. Raupach;Josep G. Canadell;Gregg Marland

  • 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

  • Estimated carbon dioxide emissions from tropical deforestation improved by carbon-density maps

    A. Baccini;S. J. Goetz;W. S. Walker;N. T. Laporte

  • The carbon cycle and atmospheric CO2

    IC Prentice;GD Farquhar;Mjr Fasham;ML Goulden

  • Recent patterns and mechanisms of carbon exchange by terrestrial ecosystems

    D. S. Schimel;J. I. House;K. A. Hibbard;P. Bousquet

  • Aboveground Forest Biomass and the Global Carbon Balance

    R. A. Houghton

  • Global Carbon Budget 2019

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

  • Land Use, Land-Use Change, and Forestry

    I R Noble;Michael J Apps;Richard A Houghton;Daniel Lashof

  • Revised estimates of the annual net flux of carbon to the atmosphere from changes in land use and land management 1850–2000

    R. A. Houghton

  • The U.S. Carbon Budget: Contributions from Land-Use Change

    R. A. Houghton;J. L. Hackler;K. T. Lawrence

Frequent Co-Authors

Josep G. Canadell
Josep G. Canadell Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Stephen Sitch
Stephen Sitch University of Exeter
Pierre Friedlingstein
Pierre Friedlingstein University of Exeter
George C. Hurtt
George C. Hurtt University of Maryland, College Park
Benjamin Poulter
Benjamin Poulter Goddard Space Flight Center
Atul K. Jain
Atul K. Jain University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Kees Klein Goldewijk
Kees Klein Goldewijk Utrecht University
Berrien Moore
Berrien Moore University of Oklahoma
Michael R. Raupach
Michael R. Raupach Australian National University
Julia Pongratz
Julia Pongratz Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

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