Arain, Muhammad Altaf

Muhammad Altaf Arain
Professor, Earth, Environment & Society

Dr. M. Altaf Arain is a Professor in the School of Earth, Environment & Society and an associate member of the Department of Civil Engineering at McMaster University. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering and M.Sc. and Ph.D degrees in Hydrology from the University of Arizona. He has served as the founding director of the McMaster Centre for Climate change from 2010 to 2024 and had been the Science Research Chair in Environmental Sustainability and Climate Change. His research interests include hydrometeorology; climatology, evapotranspiration, forest and agricultural carbon and water cycles and ecosystem, watershed and global climate models.

Dr. Arain has established a multidisciplinary ecosystem restoration and environmental sustainability research program that explores the interactions and feedbacks between biogeochemical and hydrologic cycles in forest ecosystems and agricultural crops. As part of this program, he has established Turkey Point Environmental Observatory, comprising five flux tower stations near Lake Erie in Southern Ontario, which are part of Global Water Futures (GWF), Ameriflux, global Fluxnet and US-Canada Global Centre programs. Using ground based (eddy covariance, soil CO2 efflux, sapflow systems) and airborne (e.g. drone and satellite remote sensing) his group is exploring carbon sequestration capabilities, water use and sensitivity and resilience of plantation or managed forests and crops to future climate change and extreme weather events.

Dr. Arain’s group has been involved in the development of the Canadian Land Surface Scheme Including Biogeochemical Cycles (CLASSIC) used in the Canadian Earth System Model (CanESM) for climate predictions and integrated biogeochemical and hydrologic modelling systems (MESH-CLASSIC) for catchment-scale studies. He has published more than 200 peer-review journal papers and has been listed among Clarivate Analytics-Web of Science top 1% Highly-Cited Researchers in science and social science.

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PHONE: 905-525-9140 ext. 27941

EMAIL: arainm

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Faculty of Science, McMaster University
Associate Member, Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering
Professor, Earth, Environment & Society, Faculty of Science
Adjunct Professor, United Nations University (INWEH),

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Atmospheric sciences (RA)
Biological sciences (RA)
Carbon sequestration science (RA)
Climate change processes (RA)
Ecological impacts of climate change (RA)
Environmental monitoring (RA)
Forestry (RA)
Forestry management and environment (RA)
Meteorology and weather (RA)
Surface water hydrology (RA)

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chapters
- Striving toward reconciliation through the co-creation of water research. 13-40. 2022
community engaged research
- Co-Creation of Indigenous Water Quality Tools
journal articles
- Retention forestry as a climate solution: Assessing biomass, soil carbon and albedo impacts in a northern temperate coniferous forest. Science of the Total Environment. 947:174680-174680. 2024
- Different climate conditions drive variations in gross primary productivity and woody biomass accumulation in a temperate and a boreal conifer forest in Canada. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 355:110125-110125. 2024
- The impact of spongy moth (Lymantria dispar dispar) defoliation on carbon balance of a temperate deciduous forest in North America. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 354:110076-110076. 2024
- Forest carbon uptake as influenced by snowpack and length of photosynthesis season in seasonally snow-covered forests of North America. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 353:110054-110054. 2024
- Phenology of Photosynthesis in Winter‐Dormant Temperate and Boreal Forests: Long‐Term Observations From Flux Towers and Quantitative Evaluation of Phenology Models. Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Biogeosciences. 129. 2024
- Assessment of spongy moth infestation impacts on forest productivity and carbon loss using the Sentinel-2 satellite remote sensing and eddy covariance flux data. Ecological Processes. 13:37. 2024
- Evaluating the effectiveness of different variable retention harvesting treatments on forest carbon uptake using remote sensing. Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment. 33:101124-101124. 2024
- Impacts of heat and drought on the dynamics of water fluxes in a temperate deciduous forest from 2012 to 2020. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 344:109791-109791. 2024
- The Comparative Analysis of Carbon Pricing Policies on Canadian Northwest Territories’ Economy under Different Climate Change Scenarios. Energies. 16:7471-7471. 2023
- Satellite-based land surface temperature and soil moisture observations accurately predict soil respiration in temperate deciduous and coniferous forests. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 340:109618-109618. 2023
- Snow-corrected vegetation indices for improved gross primary productivity assessment in North American evergreen forests. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 340:109600-109600. 2023
- Leaf-level coordination principles propagate to the ecosystem scale. Nature Communications. 14:3948. 2023
- Tree-ring growth varies with climate and stand density in a red pine plantation forest in the Great Lakes region of North America. Dendrochronologia. 79:126091-126091. 2023
- Impacts of climate change on streamflow in the McKenzie Creek watershed in the Great Lakes region. Frontiers in Environmental Science. 11. 2023
- Future change in amplitude and timing of high-flow events in a Canadian subarctic watershed. Cold Regions Science and Technology. 209:103807-103807. 2023
- The effect of relative humidity on eddy covariance latent heat flux measurements and its implication for partitioning into transpiration and evaporation. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 330:109305-109305. 2023
- Revealing how intra- and inter-annual variability of carbon uptake (GPP) affects wood cell biomass in an eastern white pine forest. Environmental Research Letters. 18:024027-024027. 2023
- Below canopy evapotranspiration in four different variable retention harvesting treatments in a red pine plantation forest. Hydrological Processes. 37. 2023
- Effects of variable retention harvesting on canopy transpiration in a red pine plantation forest. Ecological Processes. 11:28. 2022
- Heat and drought impact on carbon exchange in an age-sequence of temperate pine forests. Ecological Processes. 11:7. 2022
- Remotely sensed carotenoid dynamics improve modelling photosynthetic phenology in conifer and deciduous forests. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 321:108977-108977. 2022
- Cross-biome synthesis of source versus sink limits to tree growth. Science. 376:758-761. 2022
- The Impact of Variable Retention Harvesting on Growth and Carbon Sequestration of a Red Pine (Pinus resinosa Ait.) Plantation Forest in Southern Ontario, Canada. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. 4. 2021
- Evaluation of observed and projected extreme climate trends for decision making in Six Nations of the Grand River, Canada. Climate Services. 24:100263-100263. 2021
- Radial variations in xylem sap flux in a temperate red pine plantation forest. Ecological Processes. 10:24. 2021
- Seasonality in aerodynamic resistance across a range of North American ecosystems. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 310:108613-108613. 2021
- Evaluation of Clumping Effects on the Estimation of Global Terrestrial Evapotranspiration. Remote Sensing. 13:4075-4075. 2021
- Interannual and spatial variability of net ecosystem production in forests explained by an integrated physiological indicator in summer. Ecological Indicators. 129:107982-107982. 2021
- Interdecadal variability of streamflow in the Hudson Bay Lowlands watersheds driven by atmospheric circulation. Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies. 36:100868-100868. 2021
- Global transpiration data from sap flow measurements: the SAPFLUXNET database. Earth System Science Data. 13:2607-2649. 2021
- Species and stand-age driven differences in photochemical reflectance index and light use efficiency across four temperate forests. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 98:102308-102308. 2021
- Explaining the Shortcomings of Log‐Transforming the Dependent Variable in Regression Models and Recommending a Better Alternative: Evidence From Soil CO₂ Emission Studies. Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Biogeosciences. 126. 2021
- Representativeness of Eddy-Covariance flux footprints for areas surrounding AmeriFlux sites. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 301-302:108350-108350. 2021
- Capturing site-to-site variability through Hierarchical Bayesian calibration of a process-based dynamic vegetation model 2021
- Remotely sensed carotenoid dynamics predict photosynthetic phenology in conifer and deciduous forests 2021
- Comparison of tree-ring growth and eddy covariance-based ecosystem productivities in three different-aged pine plantation forests. Trees - Structure and Function. 35:583-595. 2021
- Assessing the short-term impacts of variable retention harvesting (VRH) and climatic drivers on carbon sequestration and growth of a red pine (Pinus resinosa) plantation in southern Ontario, Canada 2021
- Seasonal variation in the canopy color of temperate evergreen conifer forests. New Phytologist. 229:2586-2600. 2021
- Author Correction: The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data. Scientific data. 8:72. 2021
- Sensitivity of vegetation dynamics to climate variability in a forest-steppe transition ecozone, north-eastern Inner Mongolia, China. Ecological Indicators. 120:106833-106833. 2021
- COSORE: A community database for continuous soil respiration and other soil‐atmosphere greenhouse gas flux data. Global Change Biology. 26:7268-7283. 2020
- Evaluating the Dependence between Temperature and Precipitation to Better Estimate the Risks of Concurrent Extreme Weather Events. Advances in Meteorology. 2020:1-16. 2020
- Modeling the impacts of diffuse light fraction on photosynthesis in ORCHIDEE (v5453) land surface model. Geoscientific Model Development. 13:5401-5423. 2020
- Importance of Shaded Leaf Contribution to the Total GPP of Canadian Terrestrial Ecosystems: Evaluation of MODIS GPP. Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Biogeosciences. 125. 2020
- Stomatal response to decreased relative humidity constrains the acceleration of terrestrial evapotranspiration. Environmental Research Letters. 15:094066-094066. 2020
- The Impact of Seasonal and Annual Climate Variations on the Carbon Uptake Capacity of a Deciduous Forest Within the Great Lakes Region of Canada. Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Biogeosciences. 125:e2019JG005389. 2020
- Response of carbon and water fluxes to meteorological and phenological variability in two eastern North American forests of similar age but contrasting species composition – a multiyear comparison. Biogeosciences. 17:3563-3587. 2020
- The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data. Scientific data. 7:225. 2020
- Future shift in winter streamflow modulated by the internal variability of climate in southern Ontario. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. 24:3077-3096. 2020
- Inter-annual Climate Variability and Vegetation Dynamic in the Upper Amur (Heilongjiang) River Basin in Northeast Asia. Environmental Research Communications. 2:061003-061003. 2020
- Tracking the phenology of photosynthesis using carotenoid‐sensitive and near‐infrared reflectance vegetation indices in a temperate evergreen and mixed deciduous forest. New Phytologist. 226:1682-1695. 2020
- ECOSTRESS: NASA's Next Generation Mission to Measure Evapotranspiration From the International Space Station. Water Resources Research. 56. 2020
- Winter hydrometeorological extreme events modulated by large-scale atmospheric circulation in southern Ontario. Earth System Dynamics. 11:301-318. 2020
- Global vegetation biomass production efficiency constrained by models and observations. Global Change Biology. 26:1474-1484. 2020
- Response of Soil CO2 Efflux to Shelterwood Harvesting in a Mature Temperate Pine Forest. Forests. 11:304-304. 2020
- Seasonal variability of forest sensitivity to heat and drought stresses: A synthesis based on carbon fluxes from North American forest ecosystems. Global Change Biology. 26:901-918. 2020
- Attribute parameter characterized the seasonal variation of gross primary productivity (αGPP): Spatiotemporal variation and influencing factors. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 280:107774-107774. 2020
- Climate indices to characterize climatic changes across southern Canada. Meteorological Applications. 27. 2020
- Seasonality of leaf area index and photosynthetic capacity for better estimation of carbon and water fluxes in evergreen conifer forests. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 279:107708-107708. 2019
- Trends of actual and potential evapotranspiration based on Bouchet’s complementary concept in a cold and arid steppe site of Northeastern Asia. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 279:107684-107684. 2019
- Atmospheric circulation amplifies shift of winter streamflow in southern Ontario. Journal of Hydrology. 578:124051-124051. 2019
- Carotenoid based vegetation indices for accurate monitoring of the phenology of photosynthesis at the leaf-scale in deciduous and evergreen trees. Remote Sensing of Environment. 233:111407-111407. 2019
- Cryptic phenology in plants: Case studies, implications, and recommendations. Global Change Biology. 25:3591-3608. 2019
- Field-experiment constraints on the enhancement of the terrestrial carbon sink by CO2 fertilization. Nature Geoscience. 12:809-814. 2019
- The spatial-temporal distributions of controlling factors on vegetation growth in Tibet Autonomous Region, Southwestern China. Environmental Research Communications. 1:091003-091003. 2019
- The paleoclimatic footprint in the soil carbon stock of the Tibetan permafrost region. Nature Communications. 10:4195. 2019
- No trends in spring and autumn phenology during the global warming hiatus. Nature Communications. 10:2389. 2019
- Vegetation Functional Properties Determine Uncertainty of Simulated Ecosystem Productivity: A Traceability Analysis in the East Asian Monsoon Region. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 33:668-689. 2019
- Solar‐induced chlorophyll fluorescence exhibits a universal relationship with gross primary productivity across a wide variety of biomes. Global Change Biology. 25:e4-e6. 2019
- Correction: Memory effects of climate and vegetation affecting net ecosystem CO2 fluxes in global forests. PLoS ONE. 14:e0213467-e0213467. 2019
- Memory effects of climate and vegetation affecting net ecosystem CO2 fluxes in global forests. PLoS ONE. 14:e0211510-e0211510. 2019
- Quantifying the effect of forest age in annual net forest carbon balance. Environmental Research Letters. 13:124018-124018. 2018
- Assessing particulate matter emissions from future electric mobility and potential risk for human health in Canadian metropolitan area. Air Quality, Atmosphere and Health. 11:1009-1019. 2018
- Modeling spatial distribution of population for environmental epidemiological studies: Comparing the exposure estimates using choropleth versus dasymetric mapping. Environment International. 119:152-164. 2018
- Temporal Dynamics of Aerodynamic Canopy Height Derived From Eddy Covariance Momentum Flux Data Across North American Flux Networks. Geophysical Research Letters. 45:9275-9287. 2018
- Solar‐induced chlorophyll fluorescence is strongly correlated with terrestrial photosynthesis for a wide variety of biomes: First global analysis based on OCO‐2 and flux tower observations. Global Change Biology. 24:3990-4008. 2018
- How clean are electric vehicles? Evidence-based review of the effects of electric mobility on air pollutants, greenhouse gas emissions and human health. Atmospheric Environment. 185:64-77. 2018
- Influence of seasonal temperature on tree-ring δ13C in different-aged temperate pine forests. Forest Ecology and Management. 419-420:197-205. 2018
- Global Association of Air Pollution and Cardiorespiratory Diseases: A Systematic Review, Meta-Analysis, and Investigation of Modifier Variables. American Journal of Public Health. 108:S123-S130. 2018
- Impacts of droughts and extreme-temperature events on gross primary production and ecosystem respiration: a systematic assessment across ecosystems and climate zones. Biogeosciences. 15:1293-1318. 2018
- Carbon, water and energy exchange dynamics of a young pine plantation forest during the initial fourteen years of growth. Forest Ecology and Management. 410:12-26. 2018
- Comparison of Big‐Leaf, Two‐Big‐Leaf, and Two‐Leaf Upscaling Schemes for Evapotranspiration Estimation Using Coupled Carbon‐Water Modeling. Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Biogeosciences. 123:207-225. 2018
- How do disturbances and climate effects on carbon and water fluxes differ between multi-aged and even-aged coniferous forests?. Science of the Total Environment. 599-600:1583-1597. 2017
- Particulate matter intake fractions for vehicular emissions at elementary schools in Hamilton, Canada: an assessment of outdoor and indoor exposure. Air Quality, Atmosphere and Health. 10:1259-1267. 2017
- Spatio-temporal analysis of particulate matter intake fractions for vehicular emissions: Hourly variation by micro-environments in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area, Canada. Science of the Total Environment. 599-600:1813-1822. 2017
- Carbon dioxide emissions of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles: A life-cycle analysis in eight Canadian cities. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 78:1390-1396. 2017
- Historical Spatial and Temporal Climate Trends in Southern Ontario, Canada. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology. 56:2767-2787. 2017
- Impacts of droughts and extreme temperature events on gross primary production and ecosystem respiration: a systematic assessment across ecosystems and climate zones 2017
- Evaluation of seasonal variations of remotely sensed leaf area index over five evergreen coniferous forests. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 130:187-201. 2017
- Modeling spatial patterns of link-based PM2.5 emissions and subsequent human exposure in a large canadian metropolitan area. Atmospheric Environment. 158:172-180. 2017
- Biophysical and Economic Analysis of Black Spruce Regeneration in Eastern Canada Using Global Climate Model Productivity Outputs. Forests. 8:106-106. 2017
- Inverting the maximum carboxylation rate ( V cmax ) from the sunlit leaf photosynthesis rate derived from measured light response curves at tower flux sites. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 236:48-66. 2017
- The Cooling Trend of Canopy Temperature During the Maturation, Succession, and Recovery of Ecosystems. Ecosystems. 20:406-415. 2017
- Land surface phenology derived from normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) at global FLUXNET sites. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 233:171-182. 2017
- Quantitative, nondestructive estimates of coarse root biomass in a temperate pine forest using 3‐D ground‐penetrating radar (GPR). Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Biogeosciences. 122:80-102. 2017
- Short‐term selective thinning effects on hydraulic functionality of a temperate pine forest in eastern Canada. Ecohydrology. 10. 2017
- Evaluating the convergence between eddy-covariance and biometric methods for assessing carbon budgets of forests. Nature Communications. 7:13717. 2016
- An analysis of global terrestrial carbon, water and energy dynamics using the carbon–nitrogen coupled CLASS-CTEMN+ model. Ecological Modelling. 336:36-56. 2016
- Global Surface Net-Radiation at 5 km from MODIS Terra. Remote Sensing. 8:739-739. 2016
- Improving winter leaf area index estimation in coniferous forests and its significance in estimating the land surface albedo. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 119:32-48. 2016
- Carbon and energy fluxes in cropland ecosystems: a model-data comparison. Biogeochemistry. 129:53-76. 2016
- Global parameterization and validation of a two‐leaf light use efficiency model for predicting gross primary production across FLUXNET sites. Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Biogeosciences. 121:1045-1072. 2016
- Improved modeling of land surface phenology using MODIS land surface reflectance and temperature at evergreen needleleaf forests of central North America. Remote Sensing of Environment. 176:152-162. 2016
- Assessing nitrogen controls on carbon, water and energy exchanges in major plant functional types across North America using a carbon and nitrogen coupled ecosystem model. Ecological Modelling. 323:12-27. 2016
- Evaluating the impacts of climate variability and cutting and insect defoliation on the historical carbon dynamics of a boreal black spruce forest landscape in eastern Canada. Ecological Modelling. 321:98-109. 2016
- Decadal trends in the seasonal-cycle amplitude of terrestrial CO<sub>2</sub> exchange resulting from the ensemble of terrestrial biosphere models. Tellus, Series B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology. 68:28968-28968. 2016
- Predicting carbon dioxide and energy fluxes across global FLUXNET sites with regression algorithms. Biogeosciences. 13:4291-4313. 2016
- Regional climate change trends and uncertainty analysis using extreme indices: A case study of Hamilton, Canada. Climate Risk Management. 13:43-63. 2016
- Improving the performance of remote sensing models for capturing intra- and inter-annual variations in daily GPP: An analysis using global FLUXNET tower data. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 214-215:416-429. 2015
- Low historical nitrogen deposition effect on carbon sequestration in the boreal zone. Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Biogeosciences. 120:2542-2561. 2015
- Empirical estimation of daytime net radiation from shortwave radiation and ancillary information. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 211-212:23-36. 2015
- Disentangling climatic and anthropogenic controls on global terrestrial evapotranspiration trends. Environmental Research Letters. 10:094008-094008. 2015
- Age effects on the water‐use efficiency and water‐use dynamics of temperate pine plantation forests. Hydrological Processes. 29:4100-4113. 2015
- Influence of Low Frequency Variability on Climate and Carbon Fluxes in a Temperate Pine Forest in Eastern Canada. Forests. 6:2762-2784. 2015
- Joint control of terrestrial gross primary productivity by plant phenology and physiology. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 112:2788-2793. 2015
- Optimization of water uptake and photosynthetic parameters in an ecosystem model using tower flux data. Ecological Modelling. 294:94-104. 2014
- Latent heat exchange in the boreal and arctic biomes. Global Change Biology. 20:3439-3456. 2014
- Vegetation-specific model parameters are not required for estimating gross primary production. Ecological Modelling. 292:1-10. 2014
- Data-driven diagnostics of terrestrial carbon dynamics over North America. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 197:142-157. 2014
- Global comparison of light use efficiency models for simulating terrestrial vegetation gross primary production based on the LaThuile database. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 192-193:108-120. 2014
- Carbon and greenhouse gas balances in an age-sequence of temperate pine plantations 2014
- Mechanisms of water supply and vegetation demand govern the seasonality and magnitude of evapotranspiration in Amazonia and Cerrado. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 191:33-50. 2014
- Linking variability in soil solution dissolved organic carbon to climate, soil type, and vegetation type. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 28:497-509. 2014
- A Surface Temperature Initiated Closure (STIC) for surface energy balance fluxes. Remote Sensing of Environment. 141:243-261. 2014
- A Simple Crop Phenology Algorithm in the Land Surface Model CN‐CLASS. Agronomy Journal. 106:297-308. 2014
- Can current moisture responses predict soil CO<sub>2</sub> efflux under altered precipitation regimes? A synthesis of manipulation experiments. Biogeosciences. 11:2991-3013. 2014
- Carbon and greenhouse gas balances in an age sequence of temperate pine plantations. Biogeosciences. 11:5399-5410. 2014
- Carbon cycle uncertainty in the Alaskan Arctic. Biogeosciences. 11:4271-4288. 2014
- Corrigendum to "Can current moisture responses predict soil CO<sub>2</sub> efflux under altered precipitation regimes? A synthesis of manipulation experiments". Biogeosciences. 11:3307-3308. 2014
- Modeling dissolved organic carbon in temperate forest soils: TRIPLEX-DOC model development and validation. Geoscientific Model Development. 7:867-881. 2014
- Inter-annual variability of carbon and water fluxes in Amazonian forest, Cerrado and pasture sites, as simulated by terrestrial biosphere models. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 182-183:145-155. 2013
- Overview of the Large-Scale Biosphere–Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia Data Model Intercomparison Project (LBA-DMIP). Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 182-183:111-127. 2013
- Evaluating the impacts of climate variability and disturbance regimes on the historic carbon budget of a forest landscape. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 180:265-280. 2013
- Incorporating weather sensitivity in inventory-based estimates of boreal forest productivity: A meta-analysis of process model results. Ecological Modelling. 260:25-35. 2013
- Modeling dissolved organic carbon in temperate forest soils: TRIPLEX-DOC model development and validation 2013
- Gross and aboveground net primary production at Canadian forest carbon flux sites. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 174-175:54-64. 2013
- A data-driven analysis of energy balance closure across FLUXNET research sites: The role of landscape scale heterogeneity. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 171-172:137-152. 2013
- Use of change-point detection for friction–velocity threshold evaluation in eddy-covariance studies. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 171-172:31-45. 2013
- Evaluating the agreement between measurements and models of net ecosystem exchange at different times and time scales using wavelet coherence: an example using data from the North American Carbon Program Site-Level Interim Synthesis 2013
- Evaluating the agreement between measurements and models of net ecosystem exchange at different times and timescales using wavelet coherence: an example using data from the North American Carbon Program Site-Level Interim Synthesis. Biogeosciences. 10:6893-6909. 2013
- Correction to “Global patterns of land‐atmosphere fluxes of carbon dioxide, latent heat, and sensible heat derived from eddy covariance, satellite, and meteorological observations”. Journal of Geophysical Research. 117. 2012
- Influence of stand age on the magnitude and seasonality of carbon fluxes in Canadian forests. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 165:136-148. 2012
- State-dependent errors in a land surface model across biomes inferred from eddy covariance observations on multiple timescales. Ecological Modelling. 246:11-25. 2012
- A model‐data comparison of gross primary productivity: Results from the North American Carbon Program site synthesis. Journal of Geophysical Research. 117. 2012
- Characterizing spatial representativeness of flux tower eddy-covariance measurements across the Canadian Carbon Program Network using remote sensing and footprint analysis. Remote Sensing of Environment. 124:742-755. 2012
- The impact of induced drought on transpiration and growth in a temperate pine plantation forest. Hydrological Processes. 26:1779-1791. 2012
- Thermal optimality of net ecosystem exchange of carbon dioxide and underlying mechanisms. New Phytologist. 194:775-783. 2012
- The Association Between Chronic Exposure to Traffic-Related Air Pollution and Ischemic Heart Disease. Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health - Part A. 75:402-411. 2012
- Remote sensing of canopy light use efficiency in temperate and boreal forests of North America using MODIS imagery. Remote Sensing of Environment. 118:60-72. 2012
- What eddy‐covariance measurements tell us about prior land flux errors in CO₂‐flux inversion schemes. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 26. 2012
- Corrigendum to “Evaluating weather effects on interannual variation in net ecosystem productivity of a coastal temperate forest landscape: A model intercomparison” [Ecol. Model. 222 (17) (2011) 3236–3249]. Ecological Modelling. 226:140-140. 2012
- How climate and vegetation type influence evapotranspiration and water use efficiency in Canadian forest, peatland and grassland ecosystems. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 153:14-30. 2012
- Terrestrial biosphere models need better representation of vegetation phenology: results from the North American Carbon Program Site Synthesis. Global Change Biology. 18:566-584. 2012
- Climate change impacts on water quality and quantity. Human Evolution. 27:71-72. 2012
- Characterizing the performance of ecosystem models across time scales: A spectral analysis of the North American Carbon Program site-level synthesis. Journal of Geophysical Research. 116. 2011
- Analysis of nitrogen controls on carbon and water exchanges in a conifer forest using the CLASS-CTEMN+ model. Ecological Modelling. 222:3743-3760. 2011
- Global patterns of land-atmosphere fluxes of carbon dioxide, latent heat, and sensible heat derived from eddy covariance, satellite, and meteorological observations. Journal of Geophysical Research. 116. 2011
- Evaluating weather effects on interannual variation in net ecosystem productivity of a coastal temperate forest landscape: A model intercomparison. Ecological Modelling. 222:3236-3249. 2011
- Response to Comment on “Global Convergence in the Temperature Sensitivity of Respiration at Ecosystem Level”. Science. 331:1265-1265. 2011
- Thermal adaptation of net ecosystem exchange 2011
- Assessing eddy-covariance flux tower location bias across the Fluxnet-Canada Research Network based on remote sensing and footprint modelling. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 151:87-100. 2011
- Climate Change Impacts on Water Quality and Quantity. Global Bioethics. 24:77-78. 2011
- Controls on winter ecosystem respiration in temperate and boreal ecosystems. Biogeosciences. 8:2009-2025. 2011
- Semiempirical modeling of abiotic and biotic factors controlling ecosystem respiration across eddy covariance sites. Global Change Biology. 17:390-409. 2011
- Thermal adaptation of net ecosystem exchange. Biogeosciences. 8:1453-1463. 2011
- Controls on winter ecosystem respiration at mid- and high-latitudes 2010
- A land use regression model for predicting ambient volatile organic compound concentrations in Toronto, Canada. Atmospheric Environment. 44:3529-3537. 2010
- A model‐data intercomparison of CO₂ exchange across North America: Results from the North American Carbon Program site synthesis. Journal of Geophysical Research. 115. 2010
- Relative contributions of soil, foliar, and woody tissue respiration to total ecosystem respiration in four pine forests of different ages. Journal of Geophysical Research. 115. 2010
- Global Convergence in the Temperature Sensitivity of Respiration at Ecosystem Level. Science. 329:838-840. 2010
- Terrestrial Gross Carbon Dioxide Uptake: Global Distribution and Covariation with Climate. Science. 329:834-838. 2010
- Carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide exchanges in an age‐sequence of temperate pine forests. Global Change Biology. 16:2198-2212. 2010
- Age effects on carbon fluxes in temperate pine forests. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 150:1090-1101. 2010
- Biometric and eddy-covariance based estimates of carbon fluxes in an age-sequence of temperate pine forests. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 150:952-965. 2010
- Climate control of terrestrial carbon exchange across biomes and continents. Environmental Research Letters. 5:034007-034007. 2010
- Long-Term Exposure to Ambient Air Pollution and Risk of Hospitalization with Community-acquired Pneumonia in Older Adults. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 181:47-53. 2010
- Spatial analysis of air pollution and childhood asthma in Hamilton, Canada: comparing exposure methods in sensitive subgroups. Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source. 8:14. 2009
- Debut of a flexible model for simulating soil respiration–soil temperature relationship: Gamma model. Journal of Geophysical Research. 114. 2009
- Meteorological influences on the spatial and temporal variability of NO₂ in Toronto and Hamilton. Canadian Geographer. 53:165-190. 2009
- A Cohort Study of Traffic-Related Air Pollution and Mortality in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Environmental Health Perspectives. 117:772-777. 2009
- Modelling of climate and disturbance effects on forest above ground biomass and net biome productivity in Oyster River and Chibougamau sites. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science. 6:042035-042035. 2009
- Water flux components and soil water‐atmospheric controls in a temperate pine forest growing in a well‐drained sandy soil. Journal of Geophysical Research. 113. 2008
- Modeling analysis of primary controls on net ecosystem productivity of seven boreal and temperate coniferous forests across a continental transect. Global Change Biology. 14:1765-1784. 2008
- Correlation of nitrogen dioxide with other traffic pollutants near a major expressway. Atmospheric Environment. 42:275-290. 2008
- Allometry and partitioning of above- and belowground tree biomass in an age-sequence of white pine forests. Forest Ecology and Management. 253:68-80. 2007
- Concentrations and fluxes of dissolved organic carbon in an age-sequence of white pine forests in Southern Ontario, Canada. Biogeochemistry. 86:1-17. 2007
- Impacts of peat and vegetation on permafrost degradation under climate warming. Geophysical Research Letters. 34. 2007
- The use of wind fields in a land use regression model to predict air pollution concentrations for health exposure studies. Atmospheric Environment. 41:3453-3464. 2007
- Linking flux network measurements to continental scale simulations: ecosystem carbon dioxide exchange capacity under non‐water‐stressed conditions. Global Change Biology. 13:734-760. 2007
- Energy and water exchanges modulated by soil–plant nitrogen cycling in a temperate Pacific Northwest conifer forest. Ecological Modelling. 201:331-347. 2007
- Modeling the Intraurban Variability of Ambient Traffic Pollution in Toronto, Canada. Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health - Part A. 70:200-212. 2007
- Modelling the intra-urban variability of ambient traffic pollution in Toronto, Canada. Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health - Part A. 70:00-212. 2007
- Energy and water vapour exchanges over a mixedwood boreal forest in Ontario, Canada. Hydrological Processes. 20:3709-3724. 2006
- Above- and belowground ecosystem biomass and carbon pools in an age-sequence of temperate pine plantation forests. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 140:51-63. 2006
- Carbon dioxide and energy fluxes from a boreal mixedwood forest ecosystem in Ontario, Canada. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 140:79-96. 2006
- Photosynthetic light use efficiency of three biomes across an east–west continental-scale transect in Canada. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 140:269-286. 2006
- Soil–plant nitrogen cycling modulated carbon exchanges in a western temperate conifer forest in Canada. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 140:171-192. 2006
- Temporal and spatial variability of soil respiration in a boreal mixedwood forest. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 140:244-256. 2006
- A land use regression model for predicting ambient concentrations of nitrogen dioxide in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada (vol 56, pg 1059, 2006). Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association. 56:1366-1366. 2006
- A Land Use Regression Model for Predicting Ambient Concentrations of Nitrogen Dioxide in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association. 56:1059-1069. 2006
- Intercomparison of techniques to model water stress effects on CO2 and energy exchange in temperate and boreal deciduous forests. Ecological Modelling. 196:289-312. 2006
- Modifications of a land surface scheme for improved simulation of ground freeze‐thaw in northern environments. Geophysical Research Letters. 33. 2006
- Late-summer carbon fluxes from Canadian forests and peatlands along an eastwest continental transect. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 36:783-800. 2006
- Intercomparison of techniques to model high temperature effects on CO2 and energy exchange in temperate and boreal coniferous forests. Ecological Modelling. 188:217-252. 2005
- The simulation of energy, water vapor and carbon dioxide fluxes over common crops by the Canadian Land Surface Scheme (CLASS). Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 133:89-108. 2005
- Establishing an air pollution monitoring network for intra-urban population exposure assessment: A location-allocation approach. Atmospheric Environment. 39:2399-2409. 2005
- A review and evaluation of intraurban air pollution exposure models. Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology. 15:185-204. 2005
- Net ecosystem production in a temperate pine plantation in southeastern Canada. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 128:223-241. 2005
- Energy and water exchanges from a temperate pine plantation forest. Hydrological Processes. 19:27-49. 2005
- Net Ecosystem Production in an Eastern White Pine plantation in southern Canada. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 128:223-241. 2005
- The vorticity and angular momentum budgets of Asian summer monsoon. Journal of Earth System Science. 113:281-298. 2004
- A two‐directional freeze and thaw algorithm for hydrologic and land surface modelling. Geophysical Research Letters. 31. 2004
- Year‐round observations of the energy and water vapour fluxes above a boreal black spruce forest. Hydrological Processes. 17:3581-3600. 2003
- Effects of seasonal and interannual climate variability on net ecosystem productivity of boreal deciduous and conifer forests. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 32:878-891. 2002
- Increased carbon sequestration by a boreal deciduous forest in years with a warm spring. Geophysical Research Letters. 27:1271-1274. 2000
- Comparing micrometeorology of rain forests in Biosphere-2 and Amazon basin. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 100:273-289. 2000
- The impact of the parameterization of heterogeneous vegetation on the modeled large‐scale circulation in CCM3‐BATS. Geophysical Research Letters. 27:397-400. 2000
- Implementing surface parameter aggregation rules in the CCM3 global climate model: regional responses at the land surface. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. 3:463-476. 1999
- Evaporation from a riparian system in a semi-arid environment. Hydrological Processes. 12:527-542. 1998
- Evaporation from a riparian system in a semi‐arid environment. Hydrological Processes. 12:527-542. 1998
- Mapping surface‐cover parameters using aggregation rules and remotely sensed cover classes. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 123:2325-2348. 1997
- Aggregation rules for surface parameters in global models. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. 1:217-226. 1997
- The aggregate description of semi-arid vegetation with precipitation-generated soil moisture heterogeneity. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. 1:205-212. 1997
- Testing of vegetation parameter aggregation rules applicable to the Biosphere-Atmosphere Transfer Scheme (BATS) and the FIFE site. Journal of Hydrology. 177:1-22. 1996
- Explaining Climate Variability Vis-A-Vis Spatio-Temporal Interactions in Bangladeshi Exclusive Economic Zone (BEEZ). Journal of Earth Science and Climatic Change. 7.
- Linking flux network measurements to continental scale simulations: ecosystem carbon dioxide exchange capacity under non-water-stressed conditions. Global Change Biology. 0:070621084512032-???.
- The use of wind fields to improve empirical chronic air pollution exposure models.. Atmospheric Environment. 41:3453-3464.
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