Stephen Sitch

85.0k citations
263 papers · 30.5k · 32 hit papers · h-index 77

Impact in

    • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
    • Climate variability and models
    • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
    • Fire effects on ecosystems
    • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols

Papers in

    • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics 125
    • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics 119
    • Climate variability and models 106
    • Fire effects on ecosystems 30
    • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols 39

Stephen Sitch

254 papers receiving 29.6k citations

Stephen Sitch's Hit Papers

Maximizing carbon sequestration potential in Chinese forests through optimal management 2024 · 56 citations
560+3+7Years since publication2505007501000

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Stephen Sitch
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  • Global and Planetary Change 23.3k
  • Atmospheric Science 10.0k
  • Ecological Modeling 1.7k
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation 4.6k
  • Ecology 7.0k
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All Works

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A dynamic global vegetation model for studies of the coupled atmosphere‐biosphere system
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20051603
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Global response of terrestrial ecosystem structure and function to CO2 and climate change: results from six dynamic global vegetation models
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20011536
3
The carbon balance of terrestrial ecosystems in China
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20091368
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Development and evaluation of an Earth-System model – HadGEM2
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20111154
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The dominant role of semi-arid ecosystems in the trend and variability of the land CO 2 sink
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20151109
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Contribution of semi-arid ecosystems to interannual variability of the global carbon cycle
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20141092
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The Joint UK Land Environment Simulator (JULES), model description – Part 1: Energy and water fluxes
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20111002
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Evaluation of the terrestrial carbon cycle, future plant geography and climate‐carbon cycle feedbacks using five Dynamic Global Vegetation Models (DGVMs)
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2008958
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Responses of spring phenology to climate change
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2004771
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The Joint UK Land Environment Simulator (JULES), model description – Part 2: Carbon fluxes and vegetation dynamics
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2011759
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Indirect radiative forcing of climate change through ozone effects on the land-carbon sink
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2007722
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Terrestrial vegetation and water balance—hydrological evaluation of a dynamic global vegetation model
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2003680
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Carbon balance of the terrestrial biosphere in the Twentieth Century: Analyses of CO2, climate and land use effects with four process‐based ecosystem models
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2001632
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Global and Regional Trends and Drivers of Fire Under Climate Change
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2022621
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Exploring the likelihood and mechanism of a climate-change-induced dieback of the Amazon rainforest
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2009618
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The Effects of Tropospheric Ozone on Net Primary Productivity and Implications for Climate Change
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2012615
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Climatic Control of the High-Latitude Vegetation Greening Trend and Pinatubo Effect
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2002607
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Spatiotemporal patterns of terrestrial gross primary production: A review
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2015523
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The role of fire disturbance for global vegetation dynamics: coupling fire into a Dynamic Global Vegetation Model
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2001515
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Sensitivity of atmospheric CO2 growth rate to observed changes in terrestrial water storage
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2018368

About Stephen Sitch

Stephen Sitch is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Plant Science, Ecology and Nature and Landscape Conservation, having authored 263 papers that have together received 30.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (125 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (119 papers), Climate variability and models (106 papers), Plant responses to elevated CO2 (40 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (39 papers), Fire effects on ecosystems (30 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (24 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (21 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Global and Planetary Change (23.3k citations), Atmospheric Science (10.0k citations), Ecological Modeling (1.7k citations), Nature and Landscape Conservation (4.6k citations) and Ecology (7.0k citations). Stephen Sitch has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Philippe Ciais, Pierre Friedlingstein, Chris Huntingford, Peter M. Cox, I. Colin Prentice, Wolfgang Crämer, Shilong Piao, W. J. Collins, Benjamin Smith and Wolfgang Lucht. Their work appears in journals such as Global Change Biology, Biogeosciences, Geoscientific model development, Global Biogeochemical Cycles and Environmental Research Letters.

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