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Overview

Rosie A. Fisher is affiliated with the National Center for Atmospheric Research in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on environmental science, with a specific emphasis on global and planetary change, nature and landscape conservation, atmospheric science, ecology, and plant science.

The scientist's work addresses a variety of topics related to environmental and atmospheric processes. These include plant water relations and carbon dynamics, climate variability and models, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, tree-ring climate responses, fire effects on ecosystems, and forest ecology and management.

Recent publications by Rosie A. Fisher include:

  • Perspectives on the Future of Land Surface Models and the Challenges of Representing Complex Terrestrial Systems, 2020, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Carbon-concentration and carbon-climate feedbacks in CMIP6 models and their comparison to CMIP5 models, 2020, Biogeosciences
  • Benchmarking and parameter sensitivity of physiological and vegetation dynamics using the Functionally Assembled Terrestrial Ecosystem Simulator (FATES) at Barro Colorado Island, Panama, 2020, Biogeosciences
  • Nitrogen cycling in CMIP6 land surface models: progress and limitations, 2020, Biogeosciences
  • Hydraulically-vulnerable trees survive on deep-water access during droughts in a tropical forest, 2021, New Phytologist

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Rosie A. Fisher include Charles D. Koven, Ryan Knox, Chonggang Xu, Jeffrey Q. Chambers, and Lara M. Kueppers.

Their work is regularly published in several scientific venues such as the Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, Geoscientific Model Development, Biogeosciences, Global Change Biology, and New Phytologist.

Best Publications

  • Technical description of version 4.5 of the Community Land Model (CLM)

    Keith Oleson;M. Lawrence;B. Bonan;Beth Drewniak

  • 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

  • The interdependence of mechanisms underlying climate-driven vegetation mortality

    Nate G. McDowell;David J. Beerling;David D. Breshears;Rosie A. Fisher

  • Exploring the likelihood and mechanism of a climate-change-induced dieback of the Amazon rainforest.

    Yadvinder Malhi;Luiz E O C Aragão;David Galbraith;Chris Huntingford

  • Tree mortality from drought, insects, and their interactions in a changing climate

    William R.L. Anderegg;Jeffrey A. Hicke;Rosie A. Fisher;Craig D. Allen

  • 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

  • Perspectives on the Future of Land Surface Models and the Challenges of Representing Complex Terrestrial Systems

    Rosie A. Fisher;Charles D. Koven

  • Increasing Impacts of Extreme Droughts on Vegetation Productivity Under Climate Change

    Chonggang Xu;Nate G. McDowell;Rosie A. Fisher;Liang Wei;Liang Wei

  • Carbon-concentration and carbon-climate feedbacks in CMIP6 models and their comparison to CMIP5 models

    Vivek K. Arora;Anna Katavouta;Anna Katavouta;Richard G. Williams;Chris D. Jones

  • Drivers and Mechanisms of Tree Mortality in Moist Tropical Forests

    Nate G. McDowell;Craig D. Allen;Kristina Anderson‐Teixeira;Kristina Anderson‐Teixeira;Paulo M. Brando

  • Increased dry-season length over southern Amazonia in recent decades and its implication for future climate projection

    Rong Fu;Lei Yin;Wenhong Li;Paola A. Arias

  • Simulated resilience of tropical rainforests to CO2-induced climate change

    Chris Huntingford;Przemyslaw Zelazowski;David Galbraith;David Galbraith;Lina M. Mercado

  • Evaluating theories of drought‐induced vegetation mortality using a multimodel–experiment framework

    Nate G. McDowell;Rosie A. Fisher;Chonggang Xu;J. C. Domec;J. C. Domec

  • Multi-scale predictions of massive conifer mortality due to chronic temperature rise

    Nathan G. McDowell;A.P. Williams;A.P. Williams;C. Xu;W. T. Pockman

  • Effect of 7 yr of experimental drought on vegetation dynamics and biomass storage of an eastern Amazonian rainforest

    Antonio Carlos Lola da Costa;David Galbraith;Samuel Almeida;Bruno Takeshi Tanaka Portela

  • Modeling stomatal conductance in the earth system: linking leaf water-use efficiency and water transport along the soil–plant–atmosphere continuum

    Gordon Bonan;Mathew Williams;Rosie Fisher;Keith Oleson

  • Implementing plant hydraulics in the Community Land Model, Version 5

    Daniel Kennedy;Sean Swenson;Keith W. Oleson;David M. Lawrence

  • A framework for benchmarking land models

    Yiqi Luo;J. Randerson;G. Abramowitz;C. Bacour

  • The response of an Eastern Amazonian rain forest to drought stress: results and modelling analyses from a throughfall exclusion experiment

    R. A. Fisher;M. Williams;A. Lola Da Costa;Y. Malhi

  • Assessing uncertainties in a second-generation dynamic vegetation model caused by ecological scale limitations

    Rosie Fisher;Nate G McDowell;Drew Purves;Paul Moorcroft

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles D. Koven
Charles D. Koven Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Nate G. McDowell
Nate G. McDowell Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Chonggang Xu
Chonggang Xu Los Alamos National Laboratory
Patrick Meir
Patrick Meir University of Edinburgh
Joshua B. Fisher
Joshua B. Fisher Chapman University
Jeffrey Q. Chambers
Jeffrey Q. Chambers Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Lara M. Kueppers
Lara M. Kueppers Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peter B. Reich
Peter B. Reich University of Minnesota
Yadvinder Malhi
Yadvinder Malhi University of Oxford
David W. Galbraith
David W. Galbraith University of Arizona

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