Ghassem R Asrar

Biographic Data

ID9056295
NAMEGhassem R Asrar
GIVEN NAMESGhassem R
FAMILY NAMEAsrar
SIGNATUREASRAR G R
AFFILIATIONSJoint Global Change Research Institute, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20740, USA.
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX0

  • 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…

  • The surface urban heat island response to urban expansion

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

  • 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 Information for Coping with Environmental Change

    John Church, John A Church et al.CHAPTER2011