Member Since 1991
Gordon B. Bonan
Senior Scientist, National Center for Atmospheric Research
Professional Experience
National Center for Atmospheric Research
Senior Scientist
1989 - Present
Education
University of Virginia
Doctorate
1988
Honors & Awards
Outstanding Reviewer Award - JAMES
Received December 2023
John Tyndall History of Global Environmental Change Lecture
Received December 2020
Lecture Title: Seeing the Forest for the Trees: Forests, Climate Change, and Our Future
Lecture Title: Seeing the Forest for the Trees: Forests, Climate Change, and Our Future
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Union Fellow
Received December 2013
Citation
For highly influential work on the coupling of terrestrial ecosystems with the atmosphere and feedbacks with climate change.
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Publications
Land Processes Can Substantially Impact the Mean Climate State

Terrestrial processes influence the atmosphere by controlling land‐to‐atmosphere fluxes of energy, water, and carbon. Prior research ha...

November 02, 2024
AGU Abstracts
Inference, Initialization and Intent: Improving Representation of Microbial Dynamics in Earth System Models.
AGU 2024
biogeosciences | 11 december 2024
William R. Wieder, Gordon B. Bonan, Mark Bradford,...
In the decade since we started considering the explicit representation of microbial dynamics and their influence on the global carbon cycle, increment...
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Improving the CLM5 Simulation of Evapotranspiration and Its Components by Revising the Soil Hydraulics Representation at Selected NEON Sites
AGU 2024
hydrology | 11 december 2024
Jie Hu, Ankur R. Desai, Danica Lombardozzi, Gordon...
Current land surface models are shifting from soil-hydraulic-based to plant-hydraulic-based configuration regarding carbon and water cycle simulations...
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Three dimensional simulations confirm significant contribution of stem heat storage in the energy budget of deciduous forests
AGU 2024
biogeosciences | 09 december 2024
Martin Beland, Gordon B. Bonan, Hideki Kobayashi, ...
The surface energy budget of most forests within flux tower networks is not closing, at least at hourly or half-hourly timescales. Meaning the sum of ...
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