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Richard Betts
Researcher at University of Exeter
Publications - 194
Citations - 36225
Richard Betts is an academic researcher from University of Exeter. The author has contributed to research in topics: Climate change & Global warming. The author has an hindex of 71, co-authored 186 publications receiving 32115 citations. Previous affiliations of Richard Betts include Met Office & National Institute for Space Research.
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Acceleration of global warming due to carbon-cycle feedbacks in a coupled climate model
TL;DR: Results from a fully coupled, three-dimensional carbon–climate model are presented, indicating that carbon-cycle feedbacks could significantly accelerate climate change over the twenty-first century.
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Climate–Carbon Cycle Feedback Analysis: Results from the C4MIP Model Intercomparison
Pierre Friedlingstein,Peter M. Cox,Richard Betts,Laurent Bopp,W. von Bloh,Victor Brovkin,Patricia Cadule,Scott C. Doney,Michael Eby,Inez Fung,Govindasamy Bala,Jasmin John,Chris D. Jones,Fortunat Joos,Tomomichi Kato,Michio Kawamiya,Wolfgang Knorr,Keith Lindsay,H. D. Matthews,H. D. Matthews,Thomas Raddatz,Peter Rayner,Christian Reick,Erich Roeckner,K.-G. Schnitzler,Reiner Schnur,K. M. Strassmann,Andrew J. Weaver,Chisato Yoshikawa,Ning Zeng +29 more
TL;DR: In this article, eleven coupled climate-carbon cycle models were used to study the coupling between climate change and the carbon cycle. But, there was still a large uncertainty on the magnitude of these sensitivities.
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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,Richard Betts,Victor Brovkin,Peter M. Cox,Veronica A. Fisher,Jonathan A. Foley,Andrew D. Friend,Christopher J. Kucharik,Mark R. Lomas,Navin Ramankutty,Stephen Sitch,Benjamin Smith,Andrew White,Christine Young-Molling +16 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the possible responses of ecosystem processes to rising atmospheric CO2 concentration and climate change are illustrated using six dynamic global vegetation models that explicitly represent the interactions of ecosystem carbon and water exchanges with vegetation dynamics.
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Climate Change, Deforestation, and the Fate of the Amazon
Yadvinder Malhi,J. Timmons Roberts,Richard Betts,Timothy J. Killeen,Wenhong Li,Carlos A. Nobre +5 more
TL;DR: The forest biome of Amazonia is one of Earth's greatest biological treasures and a major component of the Earth system, and this century, it faces the dual threats of deforestation and stress from climate change.
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Evaluation of the terrestrial carbon cycle, future plant geography and climate‐carbon cycle feedbacks using five Dynamic Global Vegetation Models (DGVMs)
Stephan Sitch,Chris Huntingford,Nicola Gedney,Peter Levy,Mark R. Lomas,Shilong Piao,Richard Betts,P. Ciais,Peter M. Cox,Pierre Friedlingstein,Chris D. Jones,Iain Colin Prentice,F. I. Woodward +12 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors test the ability of five Dynamic Global Vegetation Models (DGVMs), forced with observed climatology and atmospheric CO2, to model the contemporary global carbon cycle.