Ghassem Asrar

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ID5442617
NOMBREGhassem Asrar
NOMBRESGhassem
APELLIDOAsrar
FIRMAASRAR G
AFILIACIONESJoint Global Change Research Institute
ORCID0000-0002-1066-8384
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS16
TOTAL DE CITAS23
TOTAL COMO AUTOR16
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1993
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2021
ÍNDICE H2

  • Advancing a toolkit of diverse futures approaches for global environmental assessments

    Open AccessLaura Pereira, Jan J Kuiper et al.ARTICLEEcosystems and People2021

    Global Environmental Assessments (GEAs) are in a unique position to influence environmental decision-making in the context of sustainability challenges. To do this effectively, however, new methods are needed to respond to the needs of decision-makers for a more integrated, contextualized and goal-seeking evaluation of different policies, geared for action from global to local. While scenarios are an important tool for GEAs to link short-term dec…

  • Grounding global environmental assessments through bottom-up futures based on local practices and perspectives

    Open AccessLaura Pereira, Ghassem Asrar et al.ARTICLESustainability Science2021Citada por: 6Referencias: 17

    Future scenarios and pathways of potential development trajectories are powerful tools to assist with decision-making to address many sustainability challenges. Such scenarios play a major role in global environmental assessments (GEAs). Currently, however, scenarios in GEAs are mostly developed at the global level by experts and researchers, and locally imagined, bottom-up scenarios do not play a role in such assessments. In this paper, we argue…

  • GCAM v5.1

    Open AccessKatherine Calvin, Pralit Patel et al.ARTICLEGeoscientific Model Development2019

    This paper describes GCAM v5.1, an open source model that represents the linkages between energy, water, land, climate, and economic systems. GCAM is a market equilibrium model, is global in scope, and operates from 1990 to 2100 in 5-year time steps. It can be used to examine, for example, how changes in population, income, or technology cost might alter crop production, energy demand, or water withdrawals, or how changes in one region's demand f…

  • The surface urban heat island response to urban expansion

    Open AccessXiaoma Li, Yuyu Zhou et al.ARTICLEThe Science of The Total…2017

  • Benchmarking carbon fluxes of the Isimip2a biome models

    Open AccessJinfeng Chang, Philippe Ciais et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2017

  • Regional contribution to variability and trends of global gross primary productivity

    Open AccessMin Chen, Rashid Rafique et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2017

  • Emergence of new hydrologic regimes of surface water resources in the conterminous United States under future warming

    Open AccessGuoyong Leng, Maoyi Huang et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2016

    Despite the importance of surface water to people and ecosystems, few studies have explored detectable changes in surface water supply in a changing climate, given its large natural variability. Here we analyze runoff projections from the Variable Infiltration Capacity hydrological model driven by 97 downscaled and bias-corrected Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 climate projections over the conterminous United States (CONUS). Our res…

  • Can Paris pledges avert severe climate change?

    Open AccessAllen A Fawcett, Gokul Iyer et al.ARTICLEScience2015

    Reducing risks of severe outcomes and improving chances of limiting warming to 2°C

  • The contribution of Paris to limit global warming to 2 °C

    Open AccessGokul Iyer, Gokul C Iyer et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2015

    The international community has set a goal to limit global warming to 2 °C. Limiting global warming to 2 °C is a challenging goal and will entail a dramatic transformation of the global energy system, largely complete by 2040. As part of the work toward this goal, countries have been submitting their Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, indicating their emissions reduct…

  • A global map of urban extent from nightlights

    Open AccessYuyu Zhou, Steven J Smith et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2015

    Urbanization, a major driver of global change, profoundly impacts our physical and social world, for example, altering not just water and carbon cycling, biodiversity, and climate, but also demography, public health, and economy. Understanding these consequences for better scientific insights and effective decision-making unarguably requires accurate information on urban extent and its spatial distributions. We developed a method to map the urban…

  • Beyond crystal balls

    Open AccessWladimir J Alonso, Benjamin JJ McCormick et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2015

    We propose a shift from a focus on the prediction of individual disease patterns to the identification and mitigation of broader fragilities in public health systems. Modeling capabilities should be used to perform "stress tests" on how interrelated fragilities respond when faced with a range of possible or plausible threats of different nature and intensity. This system should be able to reveal crosscutting solutions with the potential to addres…

  • Climate science and services

    Open AccessGhassem Asrar, Vladimir Ryabinin et al.ARTICLECurrent Opinion in Environmental…2012Citada por: 1

  • Climate Information for Coping with Environmental Change

    John Church, John A Church et al.CHAPTER2011

  • Developing a common strategy for integrative global environmental change research and outreach

    Open AccessRik Leemans, Ghassem Asrar et al.ARTICLECurrent Opinion in Environmental…2009Citada por: 16Referencias: 4

  • Increased plant growth in the northern high latitudes from 1981 to 1991

    Open AccessRanga B Myneni, Charles D Keeling et al.ARTICLENature1997

  • Theory and Applications of Optical Remote Sensing

    Paul M Mather, Ghassem AsrarARTICLETransactions of the Institute of…1993

    Field measurements of bidirectional reflectance soil reflectance soil influences in remotely sensed vegetation-canopy spectra the theory of photon transport in leaf canopies estimation of plant-canopy attributes from spectral reflectance measurements applications in forest science and management applications to coastal wetlands vegetation remote sensing of snow in visible and near-infrared wavelengths estimating evaporation and carbon assimilatio…