Richard A. Betts
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Richard Arthur Betts is Head of the Climate Impacts strategic area at the Met Office Hadley Centre in Exeter, United Kingdom. He is also chair in Climate Impacts at the University of Exeter and the Principal Investigator of the EU FP7 project HELIX . He was a lead author for Working Group I and a contributing author for Working Group II of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report. He was a lead author for Working Group II of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report. He is an editor for the International Journal of Global Warming, the Journal of Environmental Investing, and for Earth System Dynamics. He was appointed MBE in the 2019 Birthday Honours.
Richard A. Betts's Published Works
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Published Works
- Changes in Atmospheric Constituents and in Radiative Forcing. Chapter 2 (2007) (5378)
- Acceleration of global warming due to carbon-cycle feedbacks in a coupled climate model (2000) (3871)
- Global Carbon Budget 2018 (2014) (2464)
- Global Carbon Budget 2018 (2014) (2464)
- Climate change 2007 : impacts, adaptation and vulnerability : Working Group II contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2014) (2342)
- Global response of terrestrial ecosystem structure and function to CO2 and climate change: results from six dynamic global vegetation models (2001) (2004)
- Climate Change, Deforestation, and the Fate of the Amazon (2008) (1576)
- The science of climate change. (2011) (1201)
- Evaluation of the terrestrial carbon cycle, future plant geography and climate‐carbon cycle feedbacks using five Dynamic Global Vegetation Models (DGVMs) (2008) (1183)
- Harmonization of land-use scenarios for the period 1500–2100: 600 years of global gridded annual land-use transitions, wood harvest, and resulting secondary lands (2011) (1119)
- The impact of new land surface physics on the GCM simulation of climate and climate sensitivity (1999) (945)
- Offset of the potential carbon sink from boreal forestation by decreases in surface albedo (2000) (935)
- Detection of a direct carbon dioxide effect in continental river runoff records (2006) (831)
- Implications of climate change for agricultural productivity in the early twenty-first century (2010) (822)
- Amazonian forest dieback under climate-carbon cycle projections for the 21st century (2004) (796)
- The influence of land-use change and landscape dynamics on the climate system: relevance to climate-change policy beyond the radiative effect of greenhouse gases (2002) (782)
- UK Climate Projections Science Report: Climate Change Projections (2009) (717)
- Land use/land cover changes and climate: modeling analysis and observational evidence (2011) (655)
- Projected increase in continental runoff due to plant responses to increasing carbon dioxide (2007) (596)
- Climate change in cities due to global warming and urban effects (2010) (583)
- Forecasting the Effects of Global Warming on Biodiversity (2007) (576)
- Carbon residence time dominates uncertainty in terrestrial vegetation responses to future climate and atmospheric CO2 (2013) (453)
- The role of ecosystem-atmosphere interactions in simulated Amazonian precipitation decrease and forest dieback under global climate warming (2004) (445)
- Explicit representation of subgrid heterogeneity in a GCM land surface scheme (2003) (426)
- Contrasting physiological and structural vegetation feedbacks in climate change simulations (1997) (397)
- Terrestrial and Inland Water Systems (2014) (389)
- Climate impacts on European agriculture and water management in the context of adaptation and mitigation--the importance of an integrated approach. (2010) (388)
- Assessing the impacts of 1.5 °C global warming - simulation protocol of the Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (ISIMIP2b) (2016) (387)
- Simulated resilience of tropical rainforests to CO2-induced climate change (2013) (386)
- Increasing risk of Amazonian drought due to decreasing aerosol pollution (2008) (383)
- Biogeophysical effects of land use on climate : Model simulations of radiative forcing and large-scale temperature change (2007) (327)
- Increased human and economic losses from river flooding with anthropogenic warming (2018) (299)
- Global Changes in Drought Conditions Under Different Levels of Warming (2018) (292)
- Development of regional future climate change scenarios in South America using the Eta CPTEC/HadCM3 climate change projections: climatology and regional analyses for the Amazon, São Francisco and the Paraná River basins (2012) (266)
- High sensitivity of future global warming to land carbon cycle processes (2012) (252)
- The climatic impacts of land surface change and carbon management, and the implications for climate-change mitigation policy (2003) (244)
- Climate change impacts on global agriculture (2010) (238)
- Gas hydrates: past and future geohazard? (2010) (233)
- Biogeophysical impacts of land use on present‐day climate: near‐surface temperature change and radiative forcing (2001) (230)
- Changes in Climate and Land Use Over the Amazon Region: Current and Future Variability and Trends (2018) (221)
- Plant functional type classification for earth system models: results from the European Space Agency's Land Cover Climate Change Initiative (2015) (218)
- El Nino and a record CO2 rise (2016) (203)
- El Nino and a record CO2 rise (2016) (203)
- Rapid worldwide growth of glacial lakes since 1990 (2020) (192)
- When could global warming reach 4°C? (2011) (190)
- Environmental consequences of alternative practices for intensifying crop production (2002) (187)
- Committed terrestrial ecosystem changes due to climate change (2009) (185)
- Towards quantifying uncertainty in predictions of Amazon ‘dieback’ (2008) (176)
- Climate Change and the Global Pattern of Moraine-Dammed Glacial Lake Outburst Floods (2017) (176)
- Climate and more sustainable cities: climate information for improved planning and management of cities (producers/capabilities perspective) (2010) (170)
- Downscaling of South America present climate driven by 4-member HadCM3 runs (2012) (168)
- Realizing the impacts of a 1.5 °C warmer world (2016) (165)
- Global Carbon Budget 2017 (in open review for Earth System Science Data). doi: 10.5194/essd-2017-123 (2017) (151)
- The future of the Amazon: new perspectives from climate, ecosystem and social sciences (2008) (140)
- Climate change and water: IPCC technical paper VI (2008) (135)
- The impact of natural and anthropogenic forcings on climate and hydrology since 1550 (2006) (126)
- Changes in climate extremes, fresh water availability and vulnerability to food insecurity projected at 1.5°C and 2°C global warming with a higher-resolution global climate model (2018) (122)
- Vegetation-climate feedbacks in a greenhouse world (1998) (117)
- Importance of vegetation feedbacks in doubled‐CO2 climate experiments (2000) (110)
- Mountain rock glaciers contain globally significant water stores (2018) (107)
- Ecosystems and Human Wellbeing: Current State and Trends: Findings of the Conditions and Trend Working Group of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2006) (107)
- Multi-Model Projections of River Flood Risk in Europe under Global Warming (2018) (102)
- A simulation of the effect of climate change–induced desertification on mineral dust aerosol (2005) (102)
- Regional temperature and precipitation changes under high-end (≥4°C) global warming (2011) (102)
- Research priorities in land use and land‐cover change for the Earth system and integrated assessment modelling (2010) (96)
- Using a GCM analogue model to investigate the potential for Amazonian forest dieback (2004) (95)
- Implications of land ecosystem-atmosphere interactions for strategies for climate change adaptation and mitigation (2007) (94)
- Comparing Tropical Forest Projections from Two Generations of Hadley Centre Earth System Models, HadGEM2-ES and HadCM3LC (2013) (91)
- Climate: observations, projections and impacts (2011) (86)
- Climate Change Increases the Risk of Wildfires (2020) (85)
- JULES-crop: a parametrisation of crops in the Joint UK Land Environment Simulator (2014) (85)
- Effects of large-scale Amazon forest degradation on climate and air quality through fluxes of carbon dioxide, water, energy, mineral dust and isoprene (2008) (85)
- Tropical forest. (2008) (84)
- Comparing projections of future changes in runoff from hydrological and biome models in ISI-MIP (2013) (83)
- Modelling vegetation and the carbon cycle as interactive elements of the climate system (2002) (82)
- Fire risk in Amazonia due to climate change in the HadCM3 climate model: Potential interactions with deforestation (2008) (82)
- The role of land use change in the recent warming of daily extreme temperatures (2013) (81)
- Contrasting simulated past and future responses of the Amazonian forest to atmospheric change. (2004) (78)
- Integrated approaches to climate-crop modelling: needs and challenges. (2005) (76)
- The distribution and hydrological significance of rock glaciers in the Nepalese Himalaya (2018) (76)
- Uncertainties in the timing of unprecedented climates (2014) (74)
- Climate response to the physiological impact of carbon dioxide on plants in the Met Office Unified Model HadCM3 (2009) (73)
- Global glacier volume projections under high-end climate change scenarios (2019) (70)
- Part A: Global and Sectoral Aspects: Volume 1, Global and Sectoral Aspects: Working Group II Contribution to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2014) (65)
- Climate and land use change impacts on global terrestrial ecosystems and river flows in the HadGEM2-ES Earth system model using the representative concentration pathways (2013) (65)
- Self‐beneficial effects of vegetation on climate in an ocean‐atmosphere general circulation model (1999) (64)
- Simulated responses of potential vegetation to doubled‐CO2 climate change and feedbacks on near‐surface temperature (2000) (63)
- Harmonisation of global land-use scenarios for the period 1500–2100 for IPCC-AR5 (2009) (61)
- Freshwater vulnerability under high end climate change. A pan-European assessment. (2018) (60)
- Pre-industrial-potential and Last Glacial Maximum global vegetation simulated with a coupled climate-biosphere model: diagnosis of bioclimatic relationships (2005) (59)
- Photosynthetic productivity and its efficiencies in ISIMIP2a biome models: benchmarking for impact assessment studies (2017) (54)
- The impact of climate change on global river flow in HadGEM1 simulations (2006) (51)
- Regional contribution to variability and trends of global gross primary productivity (2017) (50)
- Assessing the potential impact of climate change on the UK’s electricity network (2012) (49)
- Vegetation and climate variability: a GCM modelling study (2005) (46)
- Quantifying Environmental Drivers of Future Tropical Forest Extent (2011) (43)
- Effective radiative forcing from historical land use change (2017) (42)
- Representation of fire, land-use change and vegetation dynamics in the Joint UK Land Environment Simulator vn4.9 (JULES) (2019) (42)
- Global water availability under high-end climate change: A vulnerability based assessment (2019) (41)
- The impact of structural error on parameter constraint in a climate model (2016) (41)
- The importance of population, climate change and CO2 plant physiological forcing in determining future global water stress (2013) (41)
- Analyzing abrupt and nonlinear climate changes and their impacts (2011) (39)
- Validation of River Flows in HadGEM1 and HadCM3 with the TRIP River Flow Model (2011) (38)
- Climate scenarios and decision making under uncertainty (2007) (38)
- Benchmarking carbon fluxes of the ISIMIP2a biome models (2017) (36)
- Stomatal conductance changes due to increasing carbon dioxide levels: Projected impact on surface ozone levels (2007) (36)
- Understanding the Earth System: Climate change impacts and adaptation (2012) (35)
- Amazonian climate: results and future research (2004) (34)
- Dynamics of a global-scale vegetation model (2006) (33)
- Climate science: Afforestation cools more or less (2011) (32)
- Global and Regional Trends and Drivers of Fire Under Climate Change (2022) (32)
- Role of vegetation change in future climate under the A1B scenario and a climate stabilisation scenario, using the HadCM3C Earth system model (2012) (32)
- erratum: Acceleration of global warming due to carbon-cycle feedbacks in a coupled climate model (2000) (32)
- Sensitivity and uncertainty of modelled terrestrial net primary productivity to doubled CO2 and associated climate change for a relatively large perturbed physics ensemble (2013) (32)
- Global Warming and Climate Change in Amazonia: Climate‐Vegetation Feedback and Impacts on Water Resources (2013) (31)
- Climate and air quality (2006) (30)
- Projected future climate changes in the context of geological and geomorphological hazards (2010) (26)
- Winter wheat yields in the UK: uncertainties in climate and management impacts (2012) (25)
- Advancing national climate change risk assessment to deliver national adaptation plans (2018) (25)
- The Impact of Climate, CO2 and Population on Regional Food and Water Resources in the 2050s (2013) (23)
- Projected changes in water availability in the United Kingdom (2012) (23)
- ISIMIP2a Simulation Data from Water (global) Sector (2017) (22)
- Forcings and feedbacks by land ecosystem changes on climate change (2006) (21)
- International dimensions of climate change (2012) (20)
- A successful prediction of the record CO2 rise associated with the 2015/2016 El Niño (2018) (19)
- El Niño Driven Changes in Global Fire 2015/16 (2020) (19)
- Extreme Rainfall and Hydro-Geo-Meteorological Disaster Risk in 1.5, 2.0, and 4.0°C Global Warming Scenarios: An Analysis for Brazil (2021) (18)
- Developing H++ climate change scenarios for heat waves, droughts, floods, windstorms and cold snaps (2015) (18)
- The influence of vegetation on the ITCZ and South Asian monsoon in HadCM3 (2012) (18)
- High-end climate change in Europe: impacts, vulnerability and adaptation (2017) (18)
- Air quality and climate (2006) (17)
- Changes in productivity and carbon storage of grasslands in China under future global warming scenarios of 1.5°C and 2°C (2019) (16)
- Will Fire Danger Be Reduced by Using Solar Radiation Management to Limit Global Warming to 1.5 °C Compared to 2.0 °C? (2018) (16)
- Comparing projections of future changes in runoff and water resources from hydrological and ecosyste (2013) (16)
- Impacts of climate extremes in Brazil the development of a web platform for understanding long-term sustainability of ecosystems and human health in amazonia (pulse-Brazil) (2016) (15)
- Continental Runoff: A quality-controlled global runoff data set (Reply) (2006) (15)
- South American fires and their impacts on ecosystems increase with continued emissions (2021) (14)
- Reducing climate model biases by exploring parameter space with large ensembles of climate model simulations and statistical emulation (2019) (14)
- Are strong fire–vegetation feedbacks needed to explain the spatial distribution of tropical tree cover? (2016) (14)
- Mitigation: A sweetener for biofuels (2011) (14)
- Simulating Hydrological Impacts under Climate Change: Implications from Methodological Differences of a Pan European Assessment (2018) (13)
- Global vegetation and climate: Self-beneficial effects, climate forcings and climate feedbacks (2004) (13)
- Parametric Sensitivity of Vegetation Dynamics in the TRIFFID Model and the Associated Uncertainty in Projected Climate Change Impacts on Western U.S. Forests (2019) (12)
- The Extremely Wet March of 2017 in Peru (2019) (12)
- The Global Climate (2004) (12)
- Forests and Emissions: A contribution to the Eliasch Review (2008) (10)
- Rock glaciers represent hidden water stores in the Himalaya (2020) (10)
- Changing return periods of weather-related impacts: the attribution challenge (2011) (9)
- Carbon Sequestration and Greenhouse Gas Fluxes from Cropland Soils – Climate Opportunities and Threats (2009) (9)
- Assessing Skill for Impacts in Seasonal to Decadal Climate Forecasts (2013) (8)
- Method Uncertainty Is Essential for Reliable Confidence Statements of Precipitation Projections (2020) (8)
- Assessing the Influence of Climate Extremes on Ecosystems and Human Health in Southwestern Amazon Supported by the PULSE-Brazil Platform (2016) (8)
- ENSO and the Carbon Cycle (2020) (8)
- Volcanism and climate: chicken and egg (or vice versa)? (2010) (7)
- Modeling future effects of climate change on tropical forests (2011) (7)
- ISIMIP2a Simulation Data from Biomes Sector (2017) (7)
- Rock glaciers represent hidden water stores in the Himalaya. (2021) (6)
- Towards probabilistic projections of climate change (2009) (6)
- UK Climate Change Projections Report (2010) (6)
- Is ice in the Himalayas more resilient to climate change than we thought? (2021) (6)
- How much CO2 at 1.5 °C and 2 °C? (2018) (6)
- Harmonization of Global Land-Use Scenarios for the Period 1500-2100 for the 5th IPCC Assessment (2009) (5)
- Past and future trends in fire weather for the UK (2021) (5)
- Assessing the impacts of climate change on the water resources in the Nile Basin using a regional climate model ensemble (2009) (5)
- Comparing apples with oranges (2008) (5)
- Climate Change 2014: Technical Summary (2014) (5)
- Evaluating changes of biomass in global vegetation models: the role of turnover fluctuations and ENSO events (2018) (4)
- Regional disparities and seasonal differences in climate risk to rice labour (2021) (4)
- Modelling the past and the future fate of the Amazonian forest (2007) (4)
- Anthropogenic Drivers of Environmental Change (2012) (3)
- Corrigendum to “Sensitivity and uncertainty of modelled terrestrial net primary productivity to doubled CO2 and associated climate change for a relatively large perturbed physics ensemble” [Agric. Forest Meteorol. 170 (2013) 79–88] (2013) (3)
- ' dieback ' Towards quantifying uncertainty in predictions of Amazon (2008) (3)
- Correcting a bias in a climate model with an augmented emulator (2019) (3)
- Historical Determinism, or Historical Precedent Be Damned (1980) (3)
- Thomas Berger's Little Big Man: Contemporary Picaresque (1981) (3)
- Heed blame for extreme weather (2021) (3)
- Water remains a blind spot in climate change policies (2022) (3)
- Assessing the chance of unprecedented dry conditions over North Brazil during El Niño events (2022) (3)
- Author Correction: Mountain rock glaciers contain globally significant water stores (2018) (2)
- Impacts of Climate Change on Himalayan Glaciers: Processes, Predictions and Uncertainties (2019) (2)
- Erratum to: Increased human and economic losses from river flooding with anthropogenic warming (Nature Climate Change, (2018), 8, 9, (781-786), 10.1038/s41558-018-0257-z) (2018) (2)
- ISIMIP2a Simulation Data from Biomes Sector (V. 1.1) (2019) (1)
- HVAC: Maintaining HVAC equipment with air intake filters (2013) (1)
- Land-Use Change and Earth System Dynamics: Advancing the Science (2010) (1)
- Importance of Blue Carbon in Mitigating Climate Change and Plastic/Microplastic Pollution and Promoting Circular Economy (2023) (1)
- 2. Projected Future Climate Changes in the Context of Geological and Geomorphological Hazards (2012) (1)
- mineral dust and isoprene energy , and air quality through fluxes of carbon dioxide , water , Effects of large-scale Amazon forest degradation on climate (2008) (1)
- Stratigraphic, Sedimentologic and Paleobotanical Investigations of Terrace Gravels, U.S. Army Yuma Proving Grounds (2009) (1)
- Long‐Term Predictions (Climate Simulation and Analysis) (2006) (1)
- Dealing With Uncertainties in Climate Change Impacts Assessments: A Case Study on the Nile Basin (2011) (1)
- Representation of disturbance in the Joint UK Land Environment Simulator Vn4.8 (JULES) (2018) (1)
- Mechanisms and Impacts of Earth System Tipping Elements (2023) (1)
- the radiative effect of greenhouse gases relevance to climate-change policy beyond landscape dynamics on the climate system : The influence of land-use change and Rapid response oypta (2003) (0)
- Committed ecosystem changes and contributions to climate recovery (2009) (0)
- WIREs Climate Change Land use / land cover changes and climate : modeling analysis and observational evidence North America (2011) (0)
- Author Correction: Increased human and economic losses from river flooding with anthropogenic warming (2018) (0)
- Assessment of future Nile flow through an ensemble of RCM simulations (2010) (0)
- Fire Dynamics in an Emerging Deforestation Frontier in Southwestern Amazonia, Brazil (2022) (0)
- Uncertainty Associated with Harmonization of Global Land-Use Scenarios for the 5th IPCC Assessment Details (2010) (0)
- Social ‘tipping points’ under climate/environmental change (2017) (0)
- Contrastingphysiological and structural vegetation feedbacks inclimatechange simulations (0)
- A review of planting principles to identify the right place for the right tree for ‘net zero plus’ woodlands: Applying a place‐based natural capital framework for sustainable, efficient and equitable ( SEE ) decisions (2022) (0)
- Assessing Amazonian carbon fluxes: A data-model inter-comparison (2009) (0)
- Improving climate model accuracy by exploring parameter space with an O(105) member ensemble and emulator (2018) (0)
- James Welch. WINTER IN THE BLOOD. New York, Harper $ Row, 1974. $6.95 (1975) (0)
- The Function of Edwin O'Connor's Comedy (2016) (0)
- Beyond carbon: realising the value and continued stewardship of tropical forest ecosystem services in a changing climate (2010) (0)
- Mechanisms and impacts of climate tipping elements (2021) (0)
- Peer review report 2 on “Surface albedo raise in the South American Chaco: Combined effects of deforestation and agricultural changes” (2016) (0)
- High resilience of tropical rainforests to climate change (2013) (0)
- Regional climate change under high-end global warming (2010) (0)
- Increased human and economic losses from river flooding with 1 anthropogenic warming 2 3 (2020) (0)
- Benchmarking terrestrial models. ENSEMBLES Deliverable 6.5 (2010) (0)
- Effects of CO 2 Physiological Forcing on Amazon Climate (2014) (0)
- Supplementary material to "Improving climate model accuracy by exploring parameter space with an O(105) member ensemble and emulator" (2018) (0)
- How Much CO2 Will We Have in the Air This Year? (2021) (0)
- Temporally variable feedback processes in a dynamically coupled vegetation-atmosphere general circulation model (2003) (0)
- CDP Turkey: climate change report 2014 (2014) (0)
- Improving vegetation response to drought stress in earth system models (2018) (0)
- Inclusion of avoided deforestation in carbon trading schemes: The scientific basis (2009) (0)
- IPCC AR5 Working Group II Technical summary (2014) (0)
- AMAZALERT Delivery Report (2013) (0)
- Author Correction: Mountain rock glaciers contain globally significant water stores (2021) (0)
- Can Dynamic Global Vegetation Models Reproduce Satellite Observed Extreme Browning and Greening Events in Vegetation Productivity (2016) (0)
- Fire-vegetation feedbacks in JULES-INFERNO (2020) (0)
- Projections of water availability for climate adaptation and mitigation (2009) (0)
- Using Perturbed Physics Ensembles and Machine Learning to Select Parameters for Reducing Regional Biases in a Global Climate Model (2017) (0)
- Regional disparities in climate risk to rice labour and food security (2021) (0)
- Supplementary material from "Advancing national climate change risk assessment to deliver national adaptation plans" (2018) (0)
- Contributing to a sustainable stock exchange: CDP Turkey 100 climate change report 2013 (2013) (0)
- Preface (1998) (0)
- Global human and economic losses from river floods at global warming of 1.5°C, 2°C and 3°C (2018) (0)
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