List of works by Richard A. Betts

A successful prediction of the record CO rise associated with the 2015/2016 El Niño

scientific article published on 08 October 2018

Acceleration of global warming due to carbon-cycle feedbacks in a coupled climate model

scientific article (publication date: 9 November 2000)

Advancing national climate change risk assessment to deliver national adaptation plans.

scientific article published in June 2018

Afforestation cools more or less

scientific article published on 29 July 2011

Analyzing abrupt and nonlinear climate changes and their impacts

Assessing the impacts of 1.5 °C global warming – simulation protocol of the Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (ISIMIP2b)

article

Assessing the potential impact of climate change on the UK’s electricity network

scholarly article by Lynsey McColl et al published 8 May 2012 in Climatic Change

Author Correction: Increased human and economic losses from river flooding with anthropogenic warming

article

Benchmarking carbon fluxes of the ISIMIP2a biome models

Biogeophysical effects of land use on climate: Model simulations of radiative forcing and large-scale temperature change

article

Carbon Sequestration and Greenhouse Gas Fluxes from Cropland Soils – Climate Opportunities and Threats

scholarly article published 2009

Carbon residence time dominates uncertainty in terrestrial vegetation responses to future climate and atmospheric CO2

scientific article (publication date: 4 March 2014)

Changes in Climate and Land Use Over the Amazon Region: Current and Future Variability and Trends

scientific article published on 21 December 2018

Changes in climate extremes, fresh water availability and vulnerability to food insecurity projected at 1.5°C and 2°C global warming with a higher-resolution global climate model.

scientific article published in May 2018

Changing return periods of weather-related impacts: the attribution challenge

Climate change and the global pattern of moraine-dammed glacial lake outburst floods

scholarly article by Stephan Harrison et al published 9 April 2018 in The Cryosphere

Climate change and the global pattern of moraine-dammed glacial lake outburst floods

scholarly article by Stephan Harrison et al published 24 October 2017 in The Cryosphere discussions TCD

Climate change impacts and adaptation

scholarly article

Climate change impacts on global agriculture

scholarly article by Alvaro Calzadilla et al published 7 July 2013 in Climatic Change

Climate change in cities due to global warming and urban effects

article

Climate change, deforestation, and the fate of the Amazon

scientific article

Climate impacts on European agriculture and water management in the context of adaptation and mitigation--the importance of an integrated approach

scientific article

Climate response to the physiological impact of carbon dioxide on plants in the Met Office Unified Model HadCM3

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Comparative cytochrome P450 proteomics in the livers of immunodeficient mice using 18O stable isotope labeling

scientific article published on 11 February 2007

Comparing Tropical Forest Projections from Two Generations of Hadley Centre Earth System Models, HadGEM2-ES and HadCM3LC

scientific article published on 02 May 2012

Contrasting physiological and structural vegetation feedbacks in climate change simulations

scientific article published in Nature

Contrasting simulated past and future responses of the Amazonian forest to atmospheric change

scientific article

Corrigendum to “Sensitivity and uncertainty of modelled terrestrial net primary productivity to doubled CO2 and associated climate change for a relatively large perturbed physics ensemble” [Agric. Forest Meteorol. 170 (2013) 79–88]

scholarly article by Deborah Hemming et al published May 2013 in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Critical transitions in the Amazon forest system

scientific article published in 2024

Detection of a direct carbon dioxide effect in continental river runoff records.

scientific article

Development of regional future climate change scenarios in South America using the Eta CPTEC/HadCM3 climate change projections: climatology and regional analyses for the Amazon, São Francisco and the Paraná River basins

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Downscaling of South America present climate driven by 4-member HadCM3 runs

Dynamics of a global-scale vegetation model

article

Effective radiative forcing from historical land use change

Effects of large-scale Amazon forest degradation on climate and air quality through fluxes of carbon dioxide, water, energy, mineral dust and isoprene

scientific article

El Niño Driven Changes in Global Fire 2015/16

scientific article published on 10 June 2020

El Niño and a record CO2 rise

Erratum: Acceleration of global warming due to carbon-cycle feedbacks in a coupled climate model

scientific article published in Nature

Evaluating changes of biomass in global vegetation models: the role of turnover fluctuations and ENSO events

Extreme Rainfall and Hydro-Geo-Meteorological Disaster Risk in 1.5, 2.0, and 4.0°C Global Warming Scenarios: An Analysis for Brazil

scientific article

Fire risk in Amazonia due to climate change in the HadCM3 climate model: Potential interactions with deforestation

article

Forecasting the Effects of Global Warming on Biodiversity

article

Global Carbon Budget 2017

scholarly article

Global Carbon Budget 2017

preprint

Global and Regional Trends and Drivers of Fire Under Climate Change

scientific article published in 2022

Global glacier volume projections under high-end climate change scenarios

scientific article

Global response of terrestrial ecosystem structure and function to CO2and climate change: results from six dynamic global vegetation models

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Global warming and climate change in Amazonia: Climate-vegetation feedback and impacts on water resources

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Heed blame for extreme weather

scientific article published in 2021

High sensitivity of future global warming to land carbon cycle processes

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Impacts of Climate Extremes in Brazil: The Development of a Web Platform for Understanding Long-Term Sustainability of Ecosystems and Human Health in Amazonia (PULSE-Brazil)

Implications of climate change for agricultural productivity in the early twenty-first century

scientific article

Implications of land ecosystem-atmosphere interactions for strategies for climate change adaptation and mitigation

scientific article published on 17 December 2012

Improving climate model accuracy by exploring parameter space with an O(10<sup>5</sup>) member ensemble and emulator

scientific article

Increased human and economic losses from river flooding with anthropogenic warming

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Increasing risk of Amazonian drought due to decreasing aerosol pollution

scientific article published on May 2008

Indicators of Global Climate Change 2023: annual update of key indicators of the state of the climate system and human influence

scientific article published on 5 June 2024

Land use/land cover changes and climate: modeling analysis and observational evidence

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Mechanisms and Impacts of Earth System Tipping Elements

scientific article published on 25 February 2023

Method Uncertainty Is Essential for Reliable Confidence Statements of Precipitation Projections

scientific article published on 10 December 2020

Modelling the past and the future fate of the Amazonian forest

scientific article published on 30 June 2005

Modelling vegetation and the carbon cycle as interactive elements of the climate system

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Multi-Model Projections of River Flood Risk in Europe under Global Warming

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Offset of the potential carbon sink from boreal forestation by decreases in surface albedo

scientific article

Parametric Sensitivity of Vegetation Dynamics in the TRIFFID Model and the Associated Uncertainty in Projected Climate Change Impacts on Western U.S. Forests

scientific article

Photosynthetic productivity and its efficiencies in ISIMIP2a biome models: benchmarking for impact assessment studies

scholarly article by Akihiko Ito et al published 25 July 2017 in Environmental Research Letters

Projected Future Climate Changes in the Context of Geological and Geomorphological Hazards

Projected changes in water availability in the United Kingdom

scholarly article by Michael G. Sanderson published in August 2012

Projected future climate changes in the context of geological and geomorphological hazards

scientific article

Projected increase in continental runoff due to plant responses to increasing carbon dioxide

scientific article

Quantifying Environmental Drivers of Future Tropical Forest Extent

Rapid worldwide growth of glacial lakes since 1990

scientific article published on 31 August 2020

Realizing the impacts of a 1.5 °C warmer world

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Reducing climate model biases by exploring parameter space with large ensembles of climate model simulations and statistical emulation

scientific article

Regional contribution to variability and trends of global gross primary productivity

Representation of disturbance in the Joint UK Land Environment Simulator Vn4.8 (JULES)

Representation of fire, land-use change and vegetation dynamics in the Joint UK Land Environment Simulator vn4.9 (JULES)

scientific article published on 09 January 2019

Research priorities in land use and land-cover change for the Earth system and integrated assessment modelling

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Sensitivity and uncertainty of modelled terrestrial net primary productivity to doubled CO2 and associated climate change for a relatively large perturbed physics ensemble

scholarly article by Deborah Hemming et al published March 2013 in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Simulated resilience of tropical rainforests to CO2-induced climate change

scholarly article by Chris Huntingford et al published 10 March 2013 in Nature Geoscience

Simulated responses of potential vegetation to doubled-CO2 climate change and feedbacks on near-surface temperature

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South American fires and their impacts on ecosystems increase with continued emissions

scientific article published on 31 July 2021

Supplementary material to "Climate change and the global pattern of moraine-dammed glacial lake outburst floods"

Supplementary material to "Improving climate model accuracy by exploring parameter space with an O(10<sup>5</sup>) member ensemble and emulator"

scientific article

The Extremely Wet March of 2017 in Peru

scientific article published on 15 February 2019

The Science of Climate Change

scholarly article published 29 November 2011

The climatic impacts of land surface change and carbon management, and the implications for climate-change mitigation policy

article by Gregg Marland et al published January 2003 in Climate Policy

The future of the Amazon: new perspectives from climate, ecosystem and social sciences

scientific article (publication date: 27 May 2008)

The impact of climate change on global river flow in HadGEM1 simulations

scholarly article by Pete D. Falloon & Richard A. Betts published 2006 in Atmospheric Science Letters

The impact of natural and anthropogenic forcings on climate and hydrology since 1550

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The impact of structural error on parameter constraint in a climate model

The importance of population, climate change and CO2 plant physiological forcing in determining future global water stress

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The influence of land-use change and landscape dynamics on the climate system: relevance to climate-change policy beyond the radiative effect of greenhouse gases

scientific article

The role of land use change in the recent warming of daily extreme temperatures

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Towards quantifying uncertainty in predictions of Amazon 'dieback'.

scientific article

Tropical forest

scientific article published in May 2008

Uncertainties in the timing of unprecedented climates

scientific article published in July 2014

Validation of River Flows in HadGEM1 and HadCM3 with the TRIP River Flow Model

article

Vegetation and climate variability: a GCM modelling study

Water (Chapter 4 of Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability)

report chapter

When could global warming reach 4°C?

scientific article published in January 2011