Forrest M Hoffman

Biographic Data

ID6818892
NAMEForrest M Hoffman
GIVEN NAMESForrest M
FAMILY NAMEHoffman
SIGNATUREHOFFMAN F M
AFFILIATIONSOak Ridge National Laboratory
ORCID0000-0001-5802-4134
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2002
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX0

  • Diagnosing the representation of surface and layered soil moisture in Earth system models

    Open AccessElias Massoud, Nathaniel O Collier et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2025

    Surface soil moisture ( mrsos ) and vertically integrated soil moisture ( mrsol ) over the top 10 cm should, by definition, be physically consistent in Earth System Models (ESMs). However, an evaluation of nine CMIP6 models reveals substantial inconsistencies: in some models, mrsos and integrated mrsol agree globally; in others, they align only in specific regions; and in a few, they diverge across all grid cells. These discrepancies arise from a…

  • Uncertainty in land carbon budget simulated by terrestrial biosphere models: The role of atmospheric forcing

    Open AccessLucas Hardouin, Christine Delire et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2022

    Global estimates of the land carbon sink are often based on simulations by terrestrial biosphere models (TBMs). The use of a large number of models that differ in their underlying hypotheses, structure and parameters is one way to assess the uncertainty in the historical land carbon sink. Here we show that the atmospheric forcing datasets used to drive these TBMs represent a significant source of uncertainty that is currently not systematically a…

  • Assessing terrestrial biogeochemical feedbacks in a strategically geoengineered climate

    Open AccessCheng-En Yang, Forrest M Hoffman et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2020

    Geoengineering by injecting sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ) into the lower stratosphere has been suggested to reduce anthropogenically induced warming. While impacts of such geoengineering on climate have been investigated in recent decades, few modeling studies have considered biogeochemical feedbacks resulting from such intervention. This study comprehensively characterizes responses and feedbacks of terrestrial ecosystems, from an ensemble of coupled h…

  • 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…

  • Contribution of environmental forcings to US runoff changes for the period 1950–2010

    Open AccessWhitney L Forbes, Jiafu Mao et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2018

    Runoff in the United States is changing, and this study finds that the measured change is dependent on the geographic region and varies seasonally. Specifically, observed annual total runoff had an insignificant increasing trend in the US between 1950 and 2010, but this insignificance was due to regional heterogeneity with both significant and insignificant increases in the eastern, northern, and southern US, and a greater significant decrease in…

  • Disentangling climatic and anthropogenic controls on global terrestrial evapotranspiration trends

    Open AccessJiafu Mao, Wenting Fu et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2015

    We examined natural and anthropogenic controls on terrestrial evapotranspiration (ET) changes from 1982 to 2010 using multiple estimates from remote sensing-based datasets and process-oriented land surface models. A significant increasing trend of ET in each hemisphere was consistently revealed by observationally-constrained data and multi-model ensembles that considered historic natural and anthropogenic drivers. The climate impacts were simulat…

  • A Fractal Landscape Realizer for Generating Synthetic Maps

    Open AccessWilliam Hargrove, William W Hargrove et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2002

    "A fractal landscape realizer has been developed that generates synthetic landscape maps to user specifications. The alternative landscape realizations are not identical to the actual maps after which they are patterned, but are similar statistically (i.e., the areas and fractal character of each category are replicated). A fractal or self-affine pattern generator is used to provide a spatial probability surface for each category in the synthetic…