Selected Publications

Our recent research output focusing on climate-ecosystem interactions, Earth system modeling, heat stress, and climate change mitigation.

2025

Plant phenology evaluation of CRESCENDO land surface models using satellite-derived Leaf Area Index – Part 2: Seasonal trough, peak, and amplitude

Peano, D., Hemming, D., Delire, C., Fan, Y., Lee, H., Materia, S., Nabel, J. E. M. S., Park, T., Warlind, D., Wiltshire, A., Zaehle, S.

Biogeosciences 22, 7117–7135

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Divergent impacts of climate interventions on China’s north-south water divide

Zhang, X., Fan, Y., Tjiputra, J., Muri, H., Chen, Q.

Communications Earth & Environment 6(1), 736

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The interaction of solar radiation modification with Earth system tipping elements

Futerman, G., Adhikari, M., Duffey, A., Fan, Y., Gurevitch, J., Irvine, P., Wieners, C.

Earth System Dynamics 16(4), 939–978

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Rapid flips between warm and cold extremes in a warming world

Wu, S., Luo, M., Lau, G. N.-C., Zhang, W., Wang, L., Liu, Z., Lin, L., Wang, Y., Ge, E., Li, J., Fan, Y., Chen, Y., Liao, W., Wang, X., Xu, X., Qi, Z., Huang, Z., Chan, F. K. S., Chen, D. Y., Liu, X., Pei, T.

Nature Communications 16(1), 3543

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2024

Widespread outdoor exposure to uncompensable heat stress with warming

Fan, Y. * & McColl, K. A.

Communications Earth & Environment 5, 1–13

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2023

Unequal effects of climate intervention on agriculture

Fan, Y. *

Nature Food 4, 835–836

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Spatiotemporal variations and driving factors of China’s ecosystem water use efficiency

Ji, Y., Zeng, S., Tang, Q. Q., Yan, L., Wu, S., Fan, Y., Chen, J.

Ecological Indicators 148, 110077

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Research on the Response Characteristics and Identification of Infrasound Signals in the Jialongcuo Ice Avalanche, Tibet

Zhang, Y., Chen, Q., Su, P., Liu, D., Cui, J., Chen, J., Ma, J., Xing, Q., Xu, F., Fan, Y., Wei, F.

Remote Sensing 15(18), 4482

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2022

Implementing a rubber plant functional type in the Community Land Model (CLM5) improves the accuracy of carbon and water flux estimation

Ali, A.A.*, Fan, Y. (equal contribution), Corre, M.D., Kotowska, M.M., et al.

Land 11, 183

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China’s Greening Modulated the Reallocation of the Evapotranspiration Components during 2001–2020

Chen, J., Gao, X., Ji, Y., Luo, Y., Yan, L., Fan, Y., Tan, D.

Remote Sensing 14(24), 6327

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Dynamics of the Evaporation of Intercepted Precipitation during the Last Two Decades over China

Yan, L., Chen, J., He, L., Ji, Y., Tang, Q., Fan, Y., Tan, D.

Remote Sensing 14(10), 2474

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2021

Solar geoengineering can alleviate climate change pressures on crop yields

Fan, Y. *, Tjiputra, J., Muri, H., Lombardozzi, D., Park, C.-E., Wu, S., Keith, D.

Nature Food 2, 373–381

Featured in News & Views, and in the media: Harvard University; NCAR; Sigma2

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Plant phenology evaluation of CRESCENDO land surface models – Part 1: Start and end of the growing season

Peano, D., Hemming, D., Materia, S., Delire, C., Fan, Y., Joetzjer, E., Lee, H., Nabel, J. E. M. S., Park, T., Peylin, P., Wårlind, D., Wiltshire, A., Zaehle, S.

Biogeosciences 18(7), 2405–2428

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NorCPM1 and its contribution to CMIP6 DCPP

Bethke, I., Wang, Y., Counillon, F., Keenlyside, N., Kimmritz, M., Fransner, F., Samuelsen, A., Langehaug, H., Svendsen, L., Chiu, P.-G., Passos, L., Bentsen, M., Guo, C., Gupta, A., Tjiputra, J., Kirkevåg, A., Olivié, D., Seland, Ø., Vågane, J. S., Fan, Y., Eldevik, T.

Geoscientific Model Development 14(11), 7073–7116

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2020

Overview of the Norwegian Earth System Model (NorESM2) and key climate response of CMIP6 DECK, historical, and scenario simulations

Seland, Ø., Bentsen, M., Olivié, D., Toniazzo, T., Gjermundsen, A., Graff, L. S., Debernard, J. B., Gupta, A. K., He, Y.-C., Kirkevåg, A., Schwinger, J., Tjiputra, J., Aas, K. S., Bethke, I., Fan, Y., Griesfeller, J., Grini, A., Guo, C., Ilicak, M., Karset, I. H. H., Landgren, O., Liakka, J., Moseid, K. O., Nummelin, A., Spensberger, C., Tang, H., Zhang, Z., Heinze, C., Iversen, T., Schulz, M.

Geoscientific Model Development 13(12), 6165–6200

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Nitrogen cycling in CMIP6 land surface models: progress and limitations

Davies-Barnard, T., Meyerholt, J., Zaehle, S., Friedlingstein, P., Brovkin, V., Fan, Y., Fisher, R. A., Jones, C. D., Lee, H., Peano, D., Smith, B., Wårlind, D., Wiltshire, A. J.

Biogeosciences 17(20), 5129–5148

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Modeled Microbial Dynamics Explain the Apparent Temperature Sensitivity of Wetland Methane Emissions

Chadburn, S. E., Aalto, T., Aurela, M., Baldocchi, D., Biasi, C., Boike, J., Burke, E. J., Comyn-Platt, E., Dolman, A. J., Duran-Rojas, C., Fan, Y., Friborg, T., Gao, Y., Gedney, N., Göckede, M., Hayman, G. D., Holl, D., Hugelius, G., Kutzbach, L., Lee, H., Lohila, A., Parmentier, F.-J. W., Sachs, T., Shurpali, N. J., Westermann, S.

Global Biogeochemical Cycles 34(11), e2020GB006678

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2019

Inequal responses of drylands to radiative forcing geoengineering methods

Park, C., Jeong, S., Fan, Y. *, Tjiputra, J., Muri, H., Zheng, C. *

Geophysical Research Letters 46 (23), 14011–14020

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Reconciling canopy interception parameterization and rainfall forcing frequency in CLM for simulating evapotranspiration of rainforests and oil palm plantations in Indonesia

Fan, Y. *, Meijide, A., Lawrence, D., Roupsard, O., Calson, K., Chen, H-Y., Roll, A., Niu, F., Knohl, A.

Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 11(3), 732–751

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El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) event reduces uptake of an Indonesian oil palm plantation

Stiegler, C., Meijide, A., Fan, Y., Ali, A. A., June, T., Knohl, A.

Biogeosciences 16 (14), 2873–2890

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2017

Controls of water and energy fluxes in oil palm plantations: Environmental variables and oil palm age

Meijide, A., Roll, A., Fan, Y., Herbst, M., Niu, F., Tiedemann, F., June, T., Rauf, A., Holscher, D., Knohl, A.

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 239, 71–85

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2016

Do denser forests have greater risk of tree mortality: A remote sensing analysis of density-dependent forest mortality

Van Gunst, K. J., Weisberg, P. J., Yang, J., Fan, Y.

Forest Ecology and Management 359, 19–32

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The consequences of four land-use scenarios for forest ecosystems and the services they provide

Thompson, J. R., Lambert, K. F., Foster, D. R., Broadbent, E. N., Blumstein, M., Almeyda Zambrano, A. M., Fan, Y.

Ecosphere 7(10), e01469

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2015

A sub-canopy structure for simulating oil palm in the Community Land Model (CLM-Palm): phenology, allocation and yield

Fan, Y. *, Roupsard, O., Bernoux, M., Le Maire, G., Panferov, O., Kotowska, M. M., Knohl, A.

Geoscientific Model Development 8(11), 3785–3800

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2014

A sun–crown–sensor model and adapted C-correction logic for topographic correction of high resolution forest imagery

Fan, Y., Koukal, T., Weisberg, P. J.

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 96, 94–105

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Spatio-temporal analysis of remotely sensed forest mortality associated with road de-icing salts

Fan, Y. *, Weisberg, P. J., Nowak, R. S.

Science of The Total Environment 472, 929–938

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2007

The measure of utilizing rural biomass resource rationally

Fan, Y. *

Journal of Agricultural Mechanization Research (12), 200–202, 217

In Chinese

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"Hollow villages" exhausted rural areas

Fan, Y. *

Ecological Economy (8), 18–21

In Chinese

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