Muhammad Altaf Arain
Professor, Geography & Earth Sciences

academic article

• Tracking the phenology of photosynthesis using carotenoid‐sensitive and near‐infrared reflectance vegetation indices in a temperate evergreen and mixed deciduous forest.  New Phytologist.  2020
• 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
• Cryptic phenology in plants: Case studies, implications, and recommendations.  Global Change Biology.  25:3591-3608. 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
• 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.  Environmental 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: 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 Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology.  56:2767-2787. 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: Biogeosciences.  122:80-102. 2017
• Short‐term selective thinning effects on hydraulic functionality of a temperate pine forest in eastern Canada.  Ecohydrology.  10:e1780-e1780. 2017
• Decadal trends in the seasonal-cycle amplitude of terrestrial CO2exchange resulting from the ensemble of terrestrial biosphere models.  Tellus, Series B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology.  68:28968-28968. 2016
• 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: 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
• 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: Biogeosciences.  120:2542-2561. 2015
• Disentangling climatic and anthropogenic controls on global terrestrial evapotranspiration trends.  Environmental Research Letters.  10:094008-094008. 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
• 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 Journal of Production Agriculture.  106:297-308. 2014
• Carbon cycle uncertainty in the Alaskan Arctic.  Biogeosciences.  11:4271-4288. 2014
• Corrigendum to "Can current moisture responses predict soil CO₂ 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
• 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 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:n/a-n/a. 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:n/a-n/a. 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: Current Issues Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health.  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:n/a-n/a. 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
• 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 The Scientific monthly.  331:1265-1265. 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
• 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
• A model-data intercomparison of CO2exchange 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
• A land use regression model for predicting ambient volatile organic compound concentrations in Toronto, Canada.  Atmospheric Environment.  44:3529-3537. 2010
• Global Convergence in the Temperature Sensitivity of Respiration at Ecosystem Level.  Science The Scientific monthly.  329:838-840. 2010
• Terrestrial Gross Carbon Dioxide Uptake: Global Distribution and Covariation with Climate.  Science The Scientific monthly.  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 / Geographie Canadien.  53:165-190. 2009
• A Cohort Study of Traffic-Related Air Pollution and Mortality in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.  Environmental Health Perspectives EHP Toxicogenomics.  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: Current Issues Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health.  70:200-212. 2007
• Modelling the intra-urban variability of ambient traffic pollution in Toronto, Canada.  Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health.  70:00-212. 2007
• 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
• Late-summer carbon fluxes from Canadian forests and peatlands along an east–west continental transect.  Canadian Journal of Forest Research.  36:783-800. 2006
• Modifications of a land surface scheme for improved simulation of ground freeze-thaw in northern environments.  Geophysical Research Letters.  33. 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
• A review and evaluation of intraurban air pollution exposure models.  Journal of Exposure Analysis and Environmental Epidemiology 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
• 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.  Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Earth and Planetary Sciences 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:n/a-n/a. 2004
• 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
• 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
• Carbon and greenhouse gas balances in an age-sequence of temperate pine plantations.  Biogeosciences Discussions.  11:8227-8257.
• Controls on winter ecosystem respiration at mid- and high-latitudes.  Biogeosciences Discussions.  7:6997-7027.
• 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.  Biogeosciences Discussions.  10:3039-3077.
• Explaining Climate Variability Vis-A-Vis Spatio-Temporal Interactions in Bangladeshi Exclusive Economic Zone (BEEZ).  Journal of Earth Science & Climatic Change.  7.
• Impacts of droughts and extreme temperature events on gross primary production and ecosystem respiration: a systematic assessment across ecosystems and climate zones
• Linking flux network measurements to continental scale simulations: ecosystem carbon dioxide exchange capacity under non-water-stressed conditions.  Global Change Biology.  0:070621084512032-???.
• Modeling dissolved organic carbon in temperate forest soils: TRIPLEX-DOC model development and validation.  Geoscientific Model Development Discussions.  6:3473-3508.
• Response of Soil CO2 Efflux to Shelterwood Harvesting in a Mature Temperate Pine Forest.  Forests.  11:304-304.
• The aggregate description of semi-arid vegetation with precipitation-generated soil moisture heterogeneity.  Hydrology and Earth System Sciences.  1:205-212.
• The use of wind fields to improve empirical chronic air pollution exposure models..  Atmospheric Environment.  41:3453-3464.
• Thermal adaptation of net ecosystem exchange.  Biogeosciences Discussions.  8:1109-1136.