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Daniela Dalmonech

@ddalmo.bsky.social
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PhD Forest Ecology, Researcher @ CNR-ISAFOM interested in carbon cycle, ecosystem ecology, climate change, modelling. www.forest-modelling-lab.com

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Danielle Creek @daniellecreek.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Hi #dendrometer community! 🌳 The #GlobalDendrometerNetwork website is live: globaldendro.org 📣Join our meeting on 29 May, 10:00 CEST to discuss the global metadata call, website & updates. 📧No invite but want to attend? ☎️Get in touch! @globaldendro.bsky.social #forestmonitoring
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Global Dendrometer Network
Help us build a complete picture of dendrometers across the world. Become part of a vibrant community and a living, searchable open-access metadatabase. Increase the visibility of your research, connect, exchange and collaborate with dendrometer users around the globe.
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Danielle Creek @daniellecreek.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
📣 #Dendrometer community! We’re building an International Dendrometer Network 🌍 Join our mailing list for updates on activities, data calls & collaboration opportunities: 👉 forms.gle/gcnhXBjpmgEb... First online meeting this Friday—join us! 🌲🌳 #TreeGrowth
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Forest Modelling Laboratory @for-mod-lab.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
🌿The lab is glad to share a new paper, led by Daniela Dalmonech! Mediterranean forests can look green and productive from satellite imagery, while trees are actually struggling to grow. Canopy greening masks hidden vulnerability under climate change. 🌳@ddalmo.bsky.social 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.fo...
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Forest Modelling Laboratory @for-mod-lab.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
New study published! 🌍Climate change is reshaping European forests, conifers losing ground to broadleaved species. By the end of the century, dominant species could shift dramatically. 🌳Forests aren't just responding to climate change. They're being reshaped by it. www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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Loss of competitive strength in European conifer species under climate change - Communications Earth & Environment
Climate-driven shifts in competitive strength show declining dominance of evergreen conifers and rising competitiveness of broadleaved species across Europe, based on a deep-learning meta-model traine...
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Alessio Collalti @ale-collalti.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Not every day you get to share a paper published in @science.org . Yesterday “Climate change will increase forest disturbances in Europe throughout the 21st century” was published. In short: wildfires, windstorms and insect outbreaks are projected to increase across Europe as the climate warms 🌍🌲
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Forest Modelling Laboratory @for-mod-lab.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
🌲𝑭𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒂𝒈𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒅𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒎𝒖𝒄𝒉 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓! A new study shows that in Italian black pine forests, moderate thinning best balances wood production with key ecosystem services like carbon storage, soil protection & recreational value. Read more👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1...?
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Enhancing ecosystem service provision through the silvicultural management of European black pine stands from afforestation and reforestation in Italy - Journal of Forestry Research
Afforestation and reforestation, when aligned with site-specific ecological and socioeconomic conditions, can enhance ecosystem functions and services (ESs). In the Mediterranean, European black pine ...
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Daniela Dalmonech @ddalmo.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
#EGU26 abstract submission is still open! You can submit your abstract until 15. January 2026 here: www.egu26.eu/session/56353
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Daniela Dalmonech @ddalmo.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
🌱𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘀 - 𝗘𝗚𝗨 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲! 🌍 Interested in agroforestry, water, and carbon cycles? 💧 HS10.16 – 𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 & 𝒎𝒐𝒅𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒃𝒐𝒏 𝒄𝒚𝒄𝒍𝒆𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒂𝒈𝒓𝒐𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒚 𝒔𝒚𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒎𝒔 📅 𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞: 𝟏𝟓 𝐉𝐚𝐧 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 Submit here 👉 meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/sessio...
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Forest Modelling Laboratory @for-mod-lab.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
New paper! 🌳 iWUE in a beech forest shows no big differences across silvicultural treatments, but rises ~20% by 2050 under climate change. At this site, climate—not management—drives future iWUE. doi.org/10.1007/s116...
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Natasha MacBean @nmacbean.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Out today in JAMES!! Parameter Estimation in Land Surface Models: Challenges and Opportunities With Data Assimilation and Machine Learning doi.org/10.1029/2024... led by Nina Raoult, Natalie Douglas, @janasknits.bsky.social, @tquaife.bsky.social, me, and an awesome team of folks in the community 1/2
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Parameter Estimation in Land Surface Models: Challenges and Opportunities With Data Assimilation and Machine Learning
Data assimilation (DA) has been shown to be a powerful tool for reducing land surface model (LSM) parametric uncertainty Machine learning can facilitate parameter estimation by enhancing computat...
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Daniela Dalmonech @ddalmo.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
New study out of our laboratory! First-ever national scale study using NFI plots and the process based forest model 3D-CMCC-FEM in Italy! A great work lead by my colleague Elia Vangi.
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Nature Geoscience @natgeosci.nature.com · 03/10/2025
⚒️ Article: The onset of Southern Ocean convection following a slowing of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation during Heinrich Events can help explain rapid CO2 increases and Antarctic warming during these events @pik-potsdam.bsky.social‬ www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Plots illustrating the bipolar convection seesaw mechanism
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Daniela Dalmonech @ddalmo.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Happy to share our latest study!
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
I normally post on climate science, which is my expertise. But this is too important to look away, so I want to share this from the Washington Post. Please read. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
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Column | As Gaza starves, Israel’s far right sees a dream coming true
Members of Israel’s government embrace the Trump-inspired vision of a Gaza of gleaming towers, ritzy tourism and pristine neighborhoods, but without Palestinians.
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Rupert Seidl @rupertseidl.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Come work with us! We are looking to fill a PhD (mountain forest management) and PostDoc position (forest adaptive capacity, w/ @juditlecinadiaz.bsky.social). We'd be happy to have you as part of our dynamic team! PhD: www.lss.ls.tum.de/fileadmin/w0... PostDoc: www.lss.ls.tum.de/fileadmin/w0...
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Forest Modelling Laboratory @for-mod-lab.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
🆕 Exciting news: the model just got a major upgrade in accessibility! Say hello to R3DFEM—a new open-source R package that makes this powerful forest simulator much easier to use: link.springer.com/article/10.1... @ale-collalti.bsky.social , @ddalmo.bsky.social
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R3DFEM: an R package for running the 3D-CMCC-FEM model - Earth Science Informatics
Forest ecosystems account for about one-third of the Earth’s land area, and monitoring their structure and dynamics is essential for understanding the land’s carbon cycle and its role in the greenhous...
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Forest Modelling Laboratory @for-mod-lab.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
New review in 𝐶𝑢𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝐹𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑦 𝑅𝑒𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑠 @springernature.com explores how forest growth models tackle the complex carbon source–sink feedback under climate change. 📄Paper Open-access: link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🧠Behind the paper: communities.springernature.com/posts/modeli...
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Modeling Forest Growth in a Changing Climate: Addressing the "Chicken-and-Egg" Paradox of Cause and Consequence
A recent article published in Current Forestry Reports offers a comprehensive review of both established and emerging theories for modeling growth in forest ecosystems, with particular emphasis on the...
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ForestNavigator Project @forestnavigeu.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
🌳🌏As Europe moves forward on its #climate & sustainability journey, forest-related policies & management practices need to evolve.🤝 This is the shared objective of three Horizon Europe projects 👉 forestpaths.eu/storage/app/... @forestpaths.eu #EUforestprojects #climatechange #forestresearch
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Want to see something really insane? Look at this website for USGS's Water Science Centers and Regions and see how many of their directors have "Former Employee" after their names. Everyone's gone! My best friend from grad school was one of them. Who's monitoring floods, droughts, etc?
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Water Science Centers and Regions
A list of all of the USGS Water Resources Mission Area Science Centers and regions, hubs for critical water science funded by Federal, State, and other partners and stakeholders located throughout the...
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Forest Modelling Laboratory @for-mod-lab.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
🌍Big news from the forest front! The #OptFor-EU project, featuring insights from Alessio Collalti, is in #HorizonMagazine, showcasing how science is helping Europe’s forests adapt to climate change! 📖 Read more: projects.research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/en/horizon-m... @ale-collalti.bsky.social
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Guardians of the glades: protecting Europe’s forests against climate change
The Făgăraș Mountains in southern Romania are home to one of Europe’s few remaining primary old-growth forests. These forests are still untouched by human activity and boast a rich variety of trees, f...
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Mika Rantanen @mikarantane.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Excited to share that our new paper “Summer 2024 in northern Fennoscandia was very likely the warmest in 2000 years” has been published in npj Climate and Atmospheric Science! See the open-access paper from doi.org/10.1038/s416... Short thread 👇
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Summer 2024 in northern Fennoscandia was very likely the warmest in 2000 years - npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
npj Climate and Atmospheric Science - Summer 2024 in northern Fennoscandia was very likely the warmest in 2000 years
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 16/04/2025
Every time I check my phone or simply refresh my social media feed, someone is sharing about an educational program or critical scientific research effort that is being cut. It’s infuriating and so upsetting. We need to continue making people and communities aware of what is happening.
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
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Sean Michaletz @seanmichaletz.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Fully funded PhD in Plant Ecophysiology at UBC in Vancouver 🍁! Possible topics include leaf physiology, thermal ecology, microclimates, scaling, tree physiology, forest ecology & more. Start Jan/May/Sept 2026. michaletzlab.org Please share! #PlantEcoPhys #Ecology #Botany #PhDposition #GradSchool
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 01/03/2025
Arctic update for Mar. 1, 2025: Arctic sea-ice extent set a record daily low every day in February and is poised to set an all-time record low maximum this month.
Arctic sea-ice extent anomaly graph for the years 1989-2025, showing that the current year is setting records for lowest sea-ice extent this time of year.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
I never expected this to be applicable again.
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Rupert Seidl @rupertseidl.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Interesting work by van der Meersch et al. out in Ecology Letters, nicely illustrating that process-based models are more robust than correlative models for predicting species distributions under novel climatic conditions doi.org/10.1111/ele....
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Paleorecords Reveal Biological Mechanisms Crucial for Reliable Species Range Shift Projections Amid Rapid Climate Change
Climate change has created an urgent need for reliable projections of species distributions. By hindcasting forest tree range shifts across Europe over the last 12,000 years, we show that process-exp...
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Rupert Seidl @rupertseidl.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Important piece on the role of Ockham's razor in the modern world of scientific modeling in @pnas.org. Conclusion: Complex models can be quite useful, and parsimony and complexity can complement each other in helping us to gain new insights! doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
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Is Ockham’s razor losing its edge? New perspectives on the principle of model parsimony | PNAS
The preference for simple explanations, known as the parsimony principle, has long guided the development of scientific theories, hypotheses, and m...
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Alessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky
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Tom Pugh @tompugh.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
How do forest harvesting regimes really look across Europe? Working with forestry inventories from 11 countries @ssuvanto.bsky.social quantifies how probability and intensity of harvest events actually vary across the continent agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Daniela Dalmonech @ddalmo.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Just a friendly reminder about the role of NOAA : www.noaa.gov/about-our-ag...
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About our agency
NOAA is an agency that enriches life through science. Our reach goes from the surface of the sun to the depths of the ocean floor as we work to keep the public informed of the changing environment aro...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
The most iconic figure in the environmental sciences is the Keeling Curve, the CO₂ record from Mauna Loa, Hawaii. @noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!
A line graph showing atmospheric CO2 levels at Mauna Loa Observatory from 1955 to 2025. The y-axis represents CO2 mole fraction in parts per million (ppm), ranging from 320 to 420 ppm, while the x-axis is years.
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biometlab @biometlab.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
This critical loss of data needs to be reported by our science writers @revkin.bsky.social @sammyroth.bsky.social @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social @gporterwx.bsky.social
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Glen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
GHG emissions from the German LULUCF sector have gone from around neutral to a large source! The change is almost entirely in forest land. "Due to the years of drought, around two million hectares of trees have been damaged and some have died completely." www.thuenen.de/en/thuenen-t... 1/
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Stefan Krauter @solarpapst.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Up to 100,000 people protested against right-wing lies in Berlin, Germany on Saturday night.
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Rosie Fisher @rosieafisher.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Do you want to be a climate modeler? (despite the perpetual existential panic, I still wouldn't want to do anything else...) This year's CESM tutorial applications are open... www.cesm.ucar.edu/events/tutor...
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CESM Tutorial Application | Community Earth System Model
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Arthur Gessler @arthurobuntspecht.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
From division to ‘divergence’: to understand wood growth across timescales, we need to (learn to) manipulate it
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From division to ‘divergence’: to understand wood growth across timescales, we need to (learn to) manipulate it
Wood formation is the Rosetta stone of tree physiology: a traceable, integrated record of physiological and morphological status. It also produces a large and persistent annual sink for terrestrial c...
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Cnr Eco-Hydrology Lab @ecohydrologylab.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Congrats to Jerzy Piotr Kabala on another milestone in his PhD! 🎉 Our new paper explores how meteorological data, and #Sentinel1 & #Modis #vegetation indices reveal sap flux dynamics in a beech forest in the southern Apennines. 🌲💧 Read it here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Reconstruction of the dynamics of sap-flow timeseries of a beech forest using a machine learning approach
Transpiration is a key biogeochemical process, accounting for more than half of the evaporative water fluxes from land to the atmosphere; however, its…
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Forest Modelling Laboratory @for-mod-lab.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
🌿✨ 𝐶𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑏𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 𝑌𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑅𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ 𝑏𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐹𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑀𝑜𝑑𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐿𝑎𝑏 ✨🌿 📚🔬We’re proud of the remarkable work accomplished in 2024 with 2 books and 17 articles published (9 under review) www.forest-modelling-lab.com/publications 🌲Stay tuned for more in 2025! #ForestModellingLab #3DCMCCFEM #ClimateChange
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PUBLICATIONS | Forest Modelling Lab
The Lab. publications
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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Some thoughts on the use of AI/ML in climate modeling... @realclimate.org ¡AI Caramba! www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...
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¡AI Caramba!
Rapid progress in the use of machine learning for weather and climate models is evident almost everywhere, but can we distinguish between real advances and vaporware? First off, let's define some...
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Forest Modelling Laboratory @for-mod-lab.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Santa has deliverd a nice present this year🎁 doi.org/10.1016/j.fe...
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Daniela Dalmonech @ddalmo.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Well...being Italian, this is super exciting!! And this lab has so many cool projects!! morphingmatter.org/projects/mor...
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Morphing Pasta and Beyond: Food Sustainability | Morphing Mechanism | Computational Manufacturing — Morphing Matter Lab
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Prof. Tatiana Ilyina @tatianailyina.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Don't miss an opportunity to leave your mark in advancing the Earth system model development activities within @wcrpclimate.bsky.social WGCM is seeking new members with a focus on women, gender-diverse individuals from different regions and expertise. www.wcrp-esmo.org/news/open-ca... 🧪 🌊
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Open Call for new members to join the Working Group on Coupled Modelling (WGCM)
Apply by January 31st to get the chance to join this ESMO panel, dedicated to reviewing and promoting the development of coupled climate and Earth system models.
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Abigail Swann, PhD @ecoclimatelab.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
The meeting is hybrid, so join us online from anywhere for free! Tutorial for running emissions-driven CESM is in person only, and it would be great to see you in Boulder. We will also make all of the materials from the tutorial public.
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Glen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
If foresters want to take credit for the Norwegian forest sink, then they have to take responsibility for its collapse in the last 10 years (green). And yes, including LULUCF in Norwegian emissions means net GHG emissions have risen since 2010 (black line)... www.nationen.no/norges-skoge...
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Forest Modelling Laboratory @for-mod-lab.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
📘 New Book Release! 𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑷𝒓𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑭𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝑮𝒓𝒐𝒘𝒕𝒉 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑫𝒚𝒏𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒄𝒔 15 years of cutting-edge research and code development, distilled into one essential manual on forest ecosystem modelling! 🌍🌳 @ale-collalti.bsky.social 👇 www.forest-modelling-lab.com/_files/ugd/0... youtu.be/WXXf30l-lR8
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Monitoring and Predicting Forest Growth and Dynamics
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Daniela Dalmonech @ddalmo.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Following the ‘sustainability line’, not only our Forest Ecosystem Model, the 3D-CMCC-FEM is open-source, modular and with a user guide. Now we have a nice book to dive into the model equations and code development since this modelling journey started! #forestmodelling #climatechangeimpact
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Arthur Gessler @arthurobuntspecht.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Nonstructural carbohydrate (NSC) concentrations can reflect the strategies described in the leaf economic spectrum (LES) due to their dependence on photosynthesis and respiration nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/ful…
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