Philippe Ciais

Research interests

Publications

• Microbial carbon use efficiency promotes global soil carbon storage

  Nature · 2023 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06042-3

• Global Carbon Budget 2023

  Earth system science data · 2023 · https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-5301-2023

• Accelerating the energy transition towards photovoltaic and wind in China

  Nature · 2023 · 10.1038/s41586-023-06180-8

• Climate Change and Weather Extremes in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East

  Reviews of Geophysics · 2022 · 10.1029/2021rg000762

• Global Carbon Budget 2021

  Earth system science data · 2022 · https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-1917-2022

• Global Carbon Budget 2022

  Earth system science data · 2022 · https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-4811-2022

• Global greenhouse gas emissions from animal-based foods are twice those of plant-based foods

  Nature Food · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-021-00358-x

• A comprehensive quantification of global nitrous oxide sources and sinks

  Nature · 2020 · 10.1038/s41586-020-2780-0

• Global Carbon Budget 2020

  Earth system science data · 2020 · 10.5194/essd-12-3269-2020

• The Global Methane Budget 2000-2017

  UVic’s Research and Learning Repository (University of Victoria) · 2019 · 10.5194/essd-12-1561-2020

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

  Nature Sustainability · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-019-0220-7

• Increased atmospheric vapor pressure deficit reduces global vegetation growth

  Science Advances · 2019 · 10.1126/sciadv.aax1396

• Characteristics, drivers and feedbacks of global greening

  Nature Reviews Earth & Environment · 2019 · 10.1038/s43017-019-0001-x

• Global Carbon Budget 2019

  Earth system science data · 2019 · 10.5194/essd-11-1783-2019

• Global Carbon Budget 2017

  Earth system science data · 2018 · 10.5194/essd-10-405-2018

• Global Carbon Budget 2018

  Earth system science data · 2018 · 10.5194/essd-10-2141-2018

• Compensatory water effects link yearly global land CO2 sink changes to temperature

  Nature · 2017 · 10.1038/nature20780

• Temperature increase reduces global yields of major crops in four independent estimates

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1701762114

• Greening of the Earth and its drivers

  Nature Climate Change · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate3004

• The global methane budget 2000–2012

  Earth system science data · 2016 · 10.5194/essd-8-697-2016

• Revegetation in China’s Loess Plateau is approaching sustainable water resource limits

  Nature Climate Change · 2016 · 10.1038/nclimate3092

• Global Carbon Budget 2016

  Earth system science data · 2016 · 10.5194/essd-8-605-2016

• Recent trends and drivers of regional sources and sinks of carbon dioxide

  Biogeosciences · 2015 · 10.5194/bg-12-653-2015

• Reduced carbon emission estimates from fossil fuel combustion and cement production in China

  Nature · 2015 · 10.1038/nature14677

• Declining global warming effects on the phenology of spring leaf unfolding

  Nature · 2015 · 10.1038/nature15402

• Biophysical and economic limits to negative CO2 emissions

  Nature Climate Change · 2015 · 10.1038/nclimate2870

• Effects of climate extremes on the terrestrial carbon cycle: concepts, processes and potential future impacts

  Global Change Biology · 2015 · 10.1111/gcb.12916

• Reduced sediment transport in the Yellow River due to anthropogenic changes

  Nature Geoscience · 2015 · 10.1038/ngeo2602

• Contribution of semi-arid ecosystems to interannual variability of the global carbon cycle

  Nature · 2014 · 10.1038/nature13376

• Betting on negative emissions

  Nature Climate Change · 2014 · 10.1038/nclimate2392

• Evaluation of terrestrial carbon cycle models for their response to climate variability and to CO 2 trends

  Global Change Biology · 2013 · 10.1111/gcb.12187

• Three decades of global methane sources and sinks

  Nature Geoscience · 2013 · 10.1038/ngeo1955

• Climate extremes and the carbon cycle

  Nature · 2013 · 10.1038/nature12350

• Global carbon dioxide emissions from inland waters

  Nature · 2013 · 10.1038/nature12760

• Anthropogenic perturbation of the carbon fluxes from land to ocean

  Nature Geoscience · 2013 · 10.1038/ngeo1830

• Altitude and temperature dependence of change in the spring vegetation green-up date from 1982 to 2006 in the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau

  Agricultural and Forest Meteorology · 2011 · 10.1016/j.agrformet.2011.06.016

• Surface Urban Heat Island Across 419 Global Big Cities

  Environmental Science & Technology · 2011 · 10.1021/es2030438

• Permafrost carbon-climate feedbacks accelerate global warming

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2011 · 10.1073/pnas.1103910108

• Changes in satellite‐derived vegetation growth trend in temperate and boreal Eurasia from 1982 to 2006

  Global Change Biology · 2011 · 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02419.x

• Recent decline in the global land evapotranspiration trend due to limited moisture supply

  Nature · 2010 · 10.1038/nature09396

• Terrestrial Gross Carbon Dioxide Uptake: Global Distribution and Covariation with Climate

  Science · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1184984

• Reduction of forest soil respiration in response to nitrogen deposition

  Nature Geoscience · 2010 · 10.1038/ngeo844

• Influence of spring and autumn phenological transitions on forest ecosystem productivity

  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2010 · 10.1098/rstb.2010.0102

• The impacts of climate change on water resources and agriculture in China

  Nature · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature09364

• Trends in the sources and sinks of carbon dioxide

  Nature Geoscience · 2009 · 10.1038/ngeo689

• The carbon balance of terrestrial ecosystems in China

  Nature · 2009 · 10.1038/nature07944

• Evaluation of the terrestrial carbon cycle, future plant geography and climate‐carbon cycle feedbacks using five Dynamic Global Vegetation Models (DGVMs)

  Global Change Biology · 2008 · 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2008.01626.x

• Old-growth forests as global carbon sinks

  Nature · 2008 · 10.1038/nature07276

• Net carbon dioxide losses of northern ecosystems in response to autumn warming

  Nature · 2008 · 10.1038/nature06444

• Growing season extension and its impact on terrestrial carbon cycle in the Northern Hemisphere over the past 2 decades

  Global Biogeochemical Cycles · 2007 · 10.1029/2006gb002888

• Couplings Between Changes in the Climate System and Biogeochemistry

  eScholarship (California Digital Library) · 2007

• CO 2 balance of boreal, temperate, and tropical forests derived from a global database

  Global Change Biology · 2007 · 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2007.01439.x

• Contributions to accelerating atmospheric CO 2 growth from economic activity, carbon intensity, and efficiency of natural sinks

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2007 · 10.1073/pnas.0702737104

• A dynamic global vegetation model for studies of the coupled atmosphere‐biosphere system

  Global Biogeochemical Cycles · 2005 · 10.1029/2003gb002199

• Recent patterns and mechanisms of carbon exchange by terrestrial ecosystems

  Nature · 2001 · 10.1038/35102500

• Regional Changes in Carbon Dioxide Fluxes of Land and Oceans Since 1980

  Science · 2000 · 10.1126/science.290.5495.1342

Current projects

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