G C Hurtt

Biographic Data

ID3476724
NAMEG C Hurtt
GIVEN NAMESG C
FAMILY NAMEHurtt
SIGNATUREHURTT G C
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Maryland, College Park
ORCID0000-0001-7278-202X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS30
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT30
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Pronounced inter-model uncertainties in TRENDY-simulated terrestrial carbon sink responses to hydroclimatic extremes

    Open AccessZishan Wang, Jun Wang et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2026

    Hydroclimatic extremes are critical regulators of terrestrial carbon sink dynamics, yet their representation in terrestrial biosphere models remains highly uncertain. Here, we assessed uncertainties in Trends in Net Land-Atmosphere Exchange (TRENDY) v12 model simulations of carbon sink responses to hydroclimatic extremes during 1980–2022 by systematically comparing model outputs across regions, event types, and biomes. Site-level evaluations reve…

  • Beyond MRV

    Open AccessG C Hurtt, Lei Ma et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2024

    Members of the U.S. Climate Alliance, a coalition of 24 states committed to achieving the emissions reductions outlined in the 2015 Paris Agreement, are considering policy options for inclusion of forest carbon in climate mitigation plans. These initiatives are generally limited by a lack of relevant data on forest carbon stocks and fluxes past-to-future. Previously, we developed a new forest carbon modeling system that combined high-resolution r…

  • Global Carbon Budget 2023

    Open AccessPierre Friedlingstein, Mike O’Sullivan et al.ARTICLEEarth System Science Data2023

    Accurate assessment of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and their redistribution among the atmosphere, ocean, and terrestrial biosphere in a changing climate is critical to better understand the global carbon cycle, support the development of climate policies, and project future climate change. Here we describe and synthesize data sets and methodology to quantify the five major components of the global carbon budget and their uncertai…

  • Changing cropland in changing climates

    Open AccessJennifer A Kennedy, G C Hurtt et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2023

    Climate change is impacting global crop productivity, and agricultural land suitability is predicted to significantly shift in the future. Responses to changing conditions and increasing yield variability can range from altered management strategies to outright land use conversions that may have significant environmental and socioeconomic ramifications. However, the extent to which agricultural land use changes in response to variations in climat…

  • Global Carbon Budget 2021

    Open AccessPierre Friedlingstein, Matthew W Jones et al.ARTICLEEarth System Science Data2022

    Accurate assessment of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions andtheir redistribution among the atmosphere, ocean, and terrestrial biospherein a changing climate is critical to better understand the global carboncycle, support the development of climate policies, and project futureclimate change. Here we describe and synthesize datasets and methodology toquantify the five major components of the global carbon budget and theiruncertainties. …

  • Global Carbon Budget 2022

    Open AccessPierre Friedlingstein, Mike O’Sullivan et al.ARTICLEEarth System Science Data2022

    Accurate assessment of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions andtheir redistribution among the atmosphere, ocean, and terrestrial biospherein a changing climate is critical to better understand the global carboncycle, support the development of climate policies, and project futureclimate change. Here we describe and synthesize data sets and methodologies toquantify the five major components of the global carbon budget and theiruncertaintie…

  • Gedi launches a new era of biomass inference from space

    Open AccessRalph Dubayah, John Armston et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2022

    Accurate estimation of aboveground forest biomass stocks is required to assess the impacts of land use changes such as deforestation and subsequent regrowth on concentrations of atmospheric CO 2 . The Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) is a lidar mission launched by NASA to the International Space Station in 2018. GEDI was specifically designed to retrieve vegetation structure within a novel, theoretical sampling design that explicitl…

  • The Nasa Carbon Monitoring System Phase 2 synthesis

    Open AccessG C Hurtt, A E Andrews et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2022

    Underlying policy efforts to address global climate change is the scientific need to develop the methods to accurately measure and model carbon stocks and fluxes across the wide range of spatial and temporal scales in the Earth system. Initiated in 2010, the NASA Carbon Monitoring System is one of the most ambitious relevant science initiatives to date, exploiting the satellite remote sensing resources, computational capabilities, scientific know…

  • Scientist-stakeholder relationships drive carbon data product transfer effectiveness within Nasa program

    Open AccessMolly E Brown, Vanessa M Escobar et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2022

    Carbon cycle science is at the heart of research on global climate change and its long-term impacts, as it examines the exchange of carbon between the atmosphere, oceans, land, and the impact of fossil fuel emissions on this cycling. Given the urgency of the climate challenge, NASA’s Carbon Monitoring System (CMS) requires all funded investigators to identify and work with stakeholder organizations at project inception to accelerate the transfer …

  • The connection between forest degradation and urban energy demand in sub-Saharan Africa

    Open AccessF Sedano, Sá Nogueira Lisboa et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2021

    Charcoal is a key energy source for urban households in sub-Saharan Africa and charcoal production is the main cause of forest degradation across the region. We used multitemporal high-resolution remote sensing optical imagery to quantify the extent and intensity of forest degradation associated with charcoal production and its impact on forest carbon stocks for the main supplying area of an African capital. This analysis documents the advance of…

  • High-resolution forest carbon modelling for climate mitigation planning over the RGGI region, USA

    Open AccessLei Ma, G C Hurtt et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2021

    The inclusion of forest carbon in climate change mitigation planning requires the development of models able to project potential future carbon stocks—a step beyond traditional monitoring, reporting and verification frameworks. Here, we updated and expanded a high-resolution forest carbon modelling approach previously developed for the state of Maryland to 11 states in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) domain, which includes Connectic…

  • Geospatial assessment of the economic opportunity for reforestation in Maryland, USA

    Open AccessRachel Lamb, Lei Ma et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2021

    Afforestation and reforestation have the potential to provide effective climate mitigation through forest carbon sequestration. Strategic reforestation activities, which account for both carbon sequestration potential (CSP) and economic opportunity, can provide attractive options for policymakers who must manage competing social and environmental goals. In particular, forest carbon pricing can incentivize reforestation on private land, but this m…

  • Context and future directions for integrating forest carbon into sub-national climate mitigation planning in the RGGI region of the U.S

    Open AccessRachel Lamb, G C Hurtt et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2021

    International frameworks for climate mitigation that build from national actions have been developed under the United National Framework Convention on Climate Change and advanced most recently through the Paris Climate Agreement. In parallel, sub-national actors have set greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction goals and developed corresponding climate mitigation plans. Within the U.S., multi-state coalitions have formed to facilitate coordination of relat…

  • Harmonization of global land use change and management for the period 850–2100 (LUH2) for CMIP6

    Open AccessG C Hurtt, Louise Chini et al.ARTICLEGeoscientific Model Development2020

    Human land use activities have resulted in large changes to the biogeochemical and biophysical properties of the Earth's surface, with consequences for climate and other ecosystem services. In the future, land use activities are likely to expand and/or intensify further to meet growing demands for food, fiber, and energy. As part of the World Climate Research Program Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6), the international community has d…

  • High-resolution forest carbon mapping for climate mitigation baselines over the RGGI region, USA

    Open AccessHao Tang, Lei Ma et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2020

    Large-scale airborne lidar data collections can be used to generate high-resolution forest aboveground biomass maps at the state level and beyond as demonstrated in early phases of NASA’s Carbon Monitoring System program. While products like aboveground biomass maps derived from these leaf-off lidar datasets each can meet state- or substate-level measurement requirements individually, combining them over multiple jurisdictions does not guarantee …

  • Global Carbon Budget 2019

    Open AccessPierre Friedlingstein, Matthew W Jones et al.ARTICLEEarth System Science Data2019

    Accurate assessment of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions andtheir redistribution among the atmosphere, ocean, and terrestrial biosphere– the “global carbon budget” – is important to better understand theglobal carbon cycle, support the development of climate policies, andproject future climate change. Here we describe data sets and methodology toquantify the five major components of the global carbon budget and theiruncertainties. Foss…

  • Beyond MRV

    Open AccessG C Hurtt, Maosheng Zhao et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2019

    Forests are important ecosystems that are under increasing pressure from human use and environmental change, and have a significant ability to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, and are therefore the focus of policy efforts aimed at reducing deforestation and degradation as well as increasing afforestation and reforestation for climate mitigation. Critical to these efforts is the accurate monitoring, reporting and verification of current …

  • Monitoring forest degradation from charcoal production with historical Landsat imagery. A case study in southern Mozambique

    Open AccessF Sedano, Sá Nogueira Lisboa et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2019

    We used historical Landsat imagery to monitor forest degradation from charcoal production in the main supplying region of the Mozambican capital, Maputo, during a ten-year period (2008–2018). We applied a change detection method that exploits temporal NDVI dynamics associated with charcoal production. This forest degradation temporal sequence exposes the magnitude and the spatial and temporal dynamics of charcoal production, which is the main for…

  • High-resolution mapping of aboveground biomass for forest carbon monitoring system in the Tri-State region of Maryland, Pennsylvania and Delaware, USA

    Open AccessWenli Huang, K A Dolan et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2019

    Accurate estimation of forest aboveground biomass at high-resolution continues to remain a challenge and long-term goal for carbon monitoring and accounting systems. Here, we present an exhaustive evaluation and validation of a robust, replicable and scalable framework that maps forest aboveground biomass over large areas at fine-resolution by linking airborne lidar and field data with machine learning algorithms. We developed this framework over…

  • Global Carbon Budget 2018

    Open AccessCorinne Le Quéré, Robbie M Andrew et al.ARTICLEEarth System Science Data2018

    Accurate assessment of anthropogenic carbon dioxide(CO2) emissions and their redistribution among the atmosphere,ocean, and terrestrial biosphere – the “global carbon budget” – isimportant to better understand the global carbon cycle, support thedevelopment of climate policies, and project future climate change. Here wedescribe data sets and methodology to quantify the five major components ofthe global carbon budget and their uncertainties. Foss…

  • Enhanced response of global wetland methane emissions to the 2015–2016 El Niño-Southern Oscillation event

    Open AccessZhen Zhang, Niklaus E Zimmermann et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2018

    Wetlands are thought to be the major contributor to interannual variability in the growth rate of atmospheric methane (CH 4 ) with anomalies driven by the influence of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO). Yet it remains unclear whether (i) the increase in total global CH 4 emissions during El Niño versus La Niña events is from wetlands and (ii) how large the contribution of wetland CH 4 emissions is to the interannual variability of atmospher…

  • Assessing the impacts of 1.5 °C global warming – simulation protocol of the Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (Isimip2b)

    Open AccessKatja Frieler, Stefan Lange et al.ARTICLEGeoscientific Model Development2017

    In Paris, France, December 2015, the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) invited the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to provide a special report in 2018 on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways. In Nairobi, Kenya, April 2016, the IPCC panel accepted the invitation. Here we describe th…

  • Disturbance Distance

    Open AccessK A Dolan, Katelyn Dolan et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2017

    Disturbances, both natural and anthropogenic, are critical determinants of forest structure, function, and distribution. The vulnerability of forests to potential changes in disturbance rates remains largely unknown. Here, we developed a framework for quantifying and mapping the vulnerability of forests to changes in disturbance rates. By comparing recent estimates of observed forest disturbance rates over a sample of contiguous US forests to mod…

  • The Scenario Model Intercomparison Project (ScenarioMIP) for CMIP6

    Open AccessBrian C O''Neill, Claudia Tebaldi et al.ARTICLEGeoscientific Model Development2016

    Projections of future climate change play a fundamental role in improving understanding of the climate system as well as characterizing societal risks and response options. The Scenario Model Intercomparison Project (ScenarioMIP) is the primary activity within Phase 6 of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6) that will provide multi-model climate projections based on alternative scenarios of future emissions and land use changes produc…

  • Essential Biodiversity Variables

    Open AccessHenrique M Pereira, Simon Ferrier et al.ARTICLEScience2013

    A global system of harmonized observations is needed to inform scientists and policy-makers.