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Atmosphere-Biosphere-Coupling, Climate & Causality @abcube.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

📢 New paper alert! 📢 New paper with contributions from our group! Wenli Zhao et al. investigate the mechanisms underlying evaporative fraction dynamics using an explainable ML model that explicitly incorporates the system memory. Full paper: hess.copernicus.org/articles/30/... #ML #EcoHydrology

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Atmosphere-Biosphere-Coupling, Climate & Causality @abcube.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

📢 Two new preprints from the #PhenoFeedBacks project! 🍃🔄🌍 A synthesis and perspective of #phenology–#climate #feedbacks with coupled ESM runs + a data-driven analysis (EO & reanalysis) quantifying surface energy flux sensitivities across northern lands. tinyurl.com/33zmpa9t tinyurl.com/y6snxhsc

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Atmosphere-Biosphere-Coupling, Climate & Causality @abcube.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

📢 New paper alert! 📢 Can Deep Learning (DL) models reliably extrapolate to unseen climatic conditions? We test whether various DL architectures successfully extrapolate both spatially and temporally in a controlled setting that mimics real-world complexity. Full paper: tinyurl.com/2ezxcxnr #ML #AI

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Atmosphere-Biosphere-Coupling, Climate & Causality @abcube.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

📢 New paper from our group! 🎉 We integrate pre-trained neural networks into the ICON-ESM land surface model (JSBACH4) and show that hybrid modeling can improve simulated water and carbon fluxes, especially under varying atmospheric dryness and water availability. Read more: tinyurl.com/yffnp9ch

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Atmosphere-Biosphere-Coupling, Climate & Causality @abcube.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

New paper with Victor Brovkin and Alexander J. Winkler! 🎉 We explore idealized esm-flat10 experiments and find, among other things, that most models exhibit a quasi-linear relationship between cumulative carbon uptake on land and in the ocean. Read more: esd.copernicus.org/articles/16/...

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Atmosphere-Biosphere-Coupling, Climate & Causality @abcube.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

@chunhuizhan.bsky.social successfully defended her PhD thesis, “The Effect of Elevated Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide on the Terrestrial Carbon and Water Cycle.” 🎉 Huge congratulations, Dr. Chunhui Zhan! 🎉

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Atmosphere-Biosphere-Coupling, Climate & Causality @abcube.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

New paper from our group! Winkler & Sierra propose a new path forward to Impulse Response Functions (IRFs) for Earth system modeling—capturing time- and state-dependencies critical for understanding carbon–climate feedbacks. 🌍🌀 Read more in Geophysical Research Letters: tinyurl.com/bdff3b6y

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Atmosphere-Biosphere-Coupling, Climate & Causality @abcube.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

📢 Call for Papers 📢 Geophysical Research Letters and Water Resources Research invite submissions for the Special Issue: Agrohydrological Processes Under Global Change! Topics: Sustainable water management, agrohydrological processes in a changing climate, sociohydrological dynamics, … . Submit now!

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Atmosphere-Biosphere-Coupling, Climate & Causality @abcube.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Éamon Ó Catháin is joining us for his master’s thesis entitled “Physically aware, observationally constrained estimates of the land carbon sink and its major drivers.” He will develop a deep learning emulator of an ensemble of land-surface models and nudge to observations using transfer learning!

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Atmosphere-Biosphere-Coupling, Climate & Causality @abcube.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

We’re looking for another Scientific Coordinator (part time 80%) for the Max-Planck-Caltech-Carnegie-Columbia (MC³) Center for Earth science research @mc-3.bsky.social: Team coordination, project monitoring, planning of events & outreach activities! 📅 Apply by April 11: tinyurl.com/2s3r96my

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Atmosphere-Biosphere-Coupling, Climate & Causality @abcube.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Mauricio Lima starts as a new PhD student in the group. Mauricio previously worked with river routing (@caltech.edu) and climate downscaling using machine learning models. In his PhD he will be exploring extreme events within the land-atmosphere coupled system through diffusion models.

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Atmosphere-Biosphere-Coupling, Climate & Causality @abcube.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Dr. Praveen Kumar joins our group as a postdoctoral researcher. His current research focuses on tree mortality analysis using machine learning and deep learning models to identify key environmental and physiological triggers responsible for tree mortality.

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Atmosphere-Biosphere-Coupling, Climate & Causality @abcube.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

@dhafezirachti.bsky.social has been awarded twice for his bachelor thesis and for the follow-up research that he carried out in ABC3. He received the 1st prize of the Young Climate Scientist Award 2024 and the EGU OSPP Award for his EGU 2024 poster. www.bgc-jena.mpg.de/en/news-bach...

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Atmosphere-Biosphere-Coupling, Climate & Causality @abcube.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

A new study from our group led by Alexander J. Winkler reveals timing of carbon emissions, not just amount, determines surface warming. The time dependency arises due to lagged carbon sequestration processes in ecosystems, highlighting vegetation's role in climate projections. tinyurl.com/4556wvdv

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Atmosphere-Biosphere-Coupling, Climate & Causality @abcube.bsky.social · 26/08/2024

ABC3’s Christian Reimers and Reda ElGhawi present their research at the AI and Data Science for Earth System Sciences workshop @ ELLIS UNIT Jena on 26 August. www.ellis-jena.eu/workshop-ai-... #AI #ML #EarthSystem

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Atmosphere-Biosphere-Coupling, Climate & Causality @abcube.bsky.social · 02/08/2024

A new study from our group led by Chunhui Zhan points at a ~16% increase in photosynthetic carbon uptake for a 100 ppm CO2 rise in atmospheric: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... highlighted by the journal's Editors eos.org/editor-highl... #EarthSystem #CarbonCycle

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Atmosphere-Biosphere-Coupling, Climate & Causality @abcube.bsky.social · 18/07/2024

ABC3’s Christian Reimers will give an invited talk at the Causal Inference for Time Series Data Workshop @ UAI 2024 in Barcelona on 19 July: titled Uncovering the CO2 Fertilization Effect: Overcoming Challenges in Causal Inference for Earth System Science sites.google.com/view/ci4ts20...

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Atmosphere-Biosphere-Coupling, Climate & Causality @abcube.bsky.social · 16/07/2024

Welcome to the Bluesky account of the Atmosphere-Biosphere Coupling, Climate and Causality (ABC3) research group based at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry. Here we will post paper publications, conference participations, BSc & Master theses, job announcements and more. #EarthSystem

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