New paper in Nature Climate Change

The third chapter of former LCSC PhD student Jon Wang’s dissertation is out in Nature Climate Change.  In this paper, Jon (now a post-doc at UC Irvine) combines LiDAR measurements with historical Landsat imagery to estimate annual maps of aboveground biomass over a the study domain of NASA’s Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment.  His results provide new insights into the role of fire in high-latitude carbon budgets and also show that current generation (CMIP6) Earth system models dramatically overestimate sequestration in high-latitude forests.  To see the paper, see the link on the LCSC publications page.