T. Andrew Black

TL;DR: It is shown that surface air temperature is lower in open land than in nearby forested land, and latitudinal dependence is consistent with theoretical expectation of changes in energy loss from convection and radiation across latitudes in both the daytime and night-time phase of the diurnal cycle, the latter of which remains uncertain in climate models.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated simulated, daily average gross primary productivity (GPP) from 26 models against estimated GPP at 39 eddy covariance flux tower sites across the United States and Canada.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared observed and simulated monthly CO2 exchange from 44 eddy covariance flux towers in North America and 22 terrestrial biosphere models, and evaluated model skill as a function of drought and seasonality.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied how a typical forest ecosystem in the Pacific Northwest reacts to interannual climate variability, including the El Nino/La Nina cycle during the northern hemispheric winters of 1997/1998 and 1998/1999.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the effect of the turn-of-the-century drought in western North America on carbon uptake in the region, using reanalysis data, remote sensing observations and data from global monitoring networks.