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Victor Brovkin

Victor Brovkin

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Environmental Sciences
Germany
2023

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
101
Citations
59752
World Ranking
348
National Ranking
23

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Germany Leader Award
  • 2016 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Victor Brovkin is a researcher affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany. Their scholarly work is situated primarily within the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions spanning 104 and 75 publications respectively.

The subfields of study that characterize Brovkin's research include Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, and Oceanography. This range reflects a broad interdisciplinary approach to understanding Earth systems and environmental processes.

Brovkin has addressed multiple main topics in their research, notably Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Climate Variability and Models, Climate Change and Permafrost, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Cryospheric Studies and Observations, and Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology.

The scientist has published extensively in venues such as Biogeosciences, Earth System Dynamics, Nature Climate Change, Environmental Research Letters, and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). These journals reflect a focus on climate science, earth system dynamics, and environmental change.

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Brovkin include Thomas Kleinen, Tatiana Ilyina, Chris Jones, Philipp de Vrese, and Pierre Friedlingstein.

Selection of recent papers authored or co-authored by Brovkin:

  • Climate model projections from the Scenario Model Intercomparison Project (ScenarioMIP) of CMIP6, 2021, Earth System Dynamics
  • Carbon-concentration and carbon-climate feedbacks in CMIP6 models and their comparison to CMIP5 models, 2020, Biogeosciences
  • The drivers and impacts of Amazon forest degradation, 2023, Science
  • Expert assessment of future vulnerability of the global peatland carbon sink, 2020, Nature Climate Change
  • Is there warming in the pipeline? A multi-model analysis of the Zero Emissions Commitment from CO 2, 2020, Biogeosciences

Victor Brovkin was recognized as a Member of Academia Europaea in 2016. This membership situates them among a network of researchers involved in advanced scientific inquiry.

Best Publications

  • Early-warning signals for critical transitions

    Marten Scheffer;Jordi Bascompte;William A. Brock;Victor Brovkin

  • Carbon and Other Biogeochemical Cycles

    P. Ciais;C. Sabine;G. Bala;L. Bopp

  • Climate–Carbon Cycle Feedback Analysis: Results from the C4MIP Model Intercomparison

    Pierre Friedlingstein;P. Cox;Richard A. Betts;Laurent Bopp

  • China and India lead in greening of the world through land-use management

    Chi Chen;Taejin Park;Xuhui Wang;Shilong Piao

  • Global response of terrestrial ecosystem structure and function to CO2 and climate change: results from six dynamic global vegetation models

    Wolfgang Cramer;Alberte Bondeau;F. Ian Woodward;I. Colin Prentice

  • Plant species traits are the predominant control on litter decomposition rates within biomes worldwide

    William K. Cornwell;Johannes H. C. Cornelissen;Kathryn Amatangelo;Ellen Dorrepaal

  • Climate and carbon cycle changes from 1850 to 2100 in MPI‐ESM simulations for the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 5

    Marco A. Giorgetta;Johann H. Jungclaus;Christian H. Reick;Stephanie Legutke

  • Developments in the MPI-M Earth System Model version 1.2 (MPI-ESM1.2) and Its Response to Increasing CO2.

    Thorsten Mauritsen;Thorsten Mauritsen;Jürgen Bader;Tobias Becker;Jörg Behrens

  • The middle Pleistocene transition: characteristics, mechanisms, and implications for long-term changes in atmospheric pCO2

    Peter U. Clark;David E. Archer;David Pollard;Joel D Blum

  • The global methane budget 2000–2012

    Marielle Saunois;Philippe Bousquet;Ben Poulter;Anna Peregon

  • Atmospheric Lifetime of Fossil Fuel Carbon Dioxide

    David Archer;Michael Eby;Victor Brovkin;Andy Ridgwell

  • Slowing down as an early warning signal for abrupt climate change

    Vasilis Dakos;Marten Scheffer;Egbert H. van Nes;Victor Brovkin

  • Carbon dioxide and climate impulse response functions for the computation of greenhouse gas metrics:a multi-model analysis

    Fortunat Joos;Fortunat Joos;Raphael Roth;Raphael Roth;J. S. Fuglestvedt;G. P. Peters

  • Global Carbon and other Biogeochemical Cycles and Feedbacks

    Josep G. Canadell;Pedro M.S. Monteiro;Marcos H. Costa;Leticia Cotrim Da Cunha

  • Carbon–Concentration and Carbon–Climate Feedbacks in CMIP5 Earth System Models

    Vivek K. Arora;George J. Boer;Pierre Friedlingstein;Michael Eby

  • Simulation of an abrupt change in Saharan vegetation in the mid-Holocene

    Martin Claussen;Claudia Kubatzki;Victor Brovkin;Andrey Ganopolski

  • Present state of global wetland extent and wetland methane modelling: conclusions from a model inter-comparison project (WETCHIMP)

    J. R. Melton;J. R. Melton;R. Wania;E. L. Hodson;B. Poulter

  • Climate model projections from the Scenario Model Intercomparison Project (ScenarioMIP) of CMIP6

    Claudia Tebaldi;Kevin Debeire;Veronika Eyring;Veronika Eyring;Erich Fischer

  • Interglacials of the last 800,000 years

    A. Berger;M. Crucifix;D.A. Hodell

  • CLIMBER-2: a climate system model of intermediate complexity. Part I: model description and performance for present climate

    V. Petoukhov;A. Ganopolski;V. Brovkin;M. Claussen

  • 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

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Claussen
Martin Claussen Universität Hamburg
Thomas Kleinen
Thomas Kleinen Max Planck Society
Christian Reick
Christian Reick Max Planck Society
Thomas Raddatz
Thomas Raddatz Max Planck Society
Julia Pongratz
Julia Pongratz Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Silvia Kloster
Silvia Kloster Max Planck Society
Chris D. Jones
Chris D. Jones Met Office
Zicheng Yu
Zicheng Yu Lehigh University
Vivek K. Arora
Vivek K. Arora University of Victoria
Fortunat Joos
Fortunat Joos University of Bern

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