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Ruikun Gou
@ruikungou.bsky.social
Researcher focusing on eco-atmosphere interactions of forest ecosystems | A/Prof at Northwest A&F University | Former at Tsinghua University and ETHz. (he/him)
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may be of interest to readers of fluxnet history. Has been a fun journey shared with many

#agupubs @fluxnet.bsky.social
@ameriflux.bsky.social
@jgrbiogeo.bsky.social
In AGU's Perspectives of Earth and Space Scientists, Dr. Dennis Baldocchi recounts the path to developing the global network of #eddy covariance measurement sites that provide direct measurements of #CarbonDioxide, water vapor, and energy fluxes.

🔗 buff.ly/u7C7kdA

#AGUPubs #GreenhouseGases
December 4, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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I’ve wrapped up the first offering of my #machinelearning class that is designed to serve earth & environmental sciences students and beyond, I wanted to share all the teaching materials in case anyone wants to explore them. All materials can be accessed via this link (jaywen.com/courses/ear-...).
EAR 400 - Machine Learning in Earth and Environmental Sciences – Wen Group
a 3-credit course introducing machine learning in earth and environmental sciences
jaywen.com
May 16, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Our children will face unprecedented exposure to weather extremes.

Our paper led by Luke Grant and @wimthiery.bsky.social published in @nature.com shows that the generation of our children and grandchildren will be exposed to a lot more weather extremes than ours.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
May 7, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Our new research shows that forest recovery from tree mortality has slowed in recent decades. This reduction is primarily associated with rising temperatures and increased water scarcity. Recovery of forest canopy water content lags behind that of vegetation greenness
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Satellite-based evidence of recent decline in global forest recovery rate from tree mortality events - Nature Plants
Satellite data show declining global forest recovery from tree mortality since the 1990s, driven by warming and water scarcity. Canopy water recovers slower than greenness, stressing the need for a mu...
www.nature.com
April 19, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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🌲🌳🌐 New study reminds us that forests act globally as a #carbon sink

Between 2001 and 2023, the world's #forests have absorbed 5.5 gigatonnes more #CO2 than they have emitted on average each year.

👉 Gibbs et al. dx.doi.org/10.5194/essd... 🧪
March 28, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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🌴🌳 Tree species richness increases climate buffering 🌡️🥵

I am so happy to share our latest piece, now published in Ecology Letters!

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Tree Diversity Increases Forest Temperature Buffering via Enhancing Canopy Density and Structural Diversity
Making use of 6 years of microclimate measurements in a large-scale tree diversity experiment covering a species richness gradient ranging from 1 to 24 tree species, we demonstrate that tree species ...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 23, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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For the first time since before the last ice age (and possibly long before that) global temperatures were over 1.5C higher than the pre-industrial average

Anyone thinking it's cheaper to manage it and keep using fossil fuels should look at Los Angeles right now

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
January 10, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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#Trees ‘remember’ wetter times − never having known abundant rain could buffer today’s young forests against #climatechange
Trees ‘remember’ wetter times − never having known abundant rain could buffer today’s young forests against climate change
Water availability regulates tree growth and can have ‘legacy effects’ long after conditions change.
theconversation.com
January 9, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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100 years of November sea surface temperature anomalies. Again, check out the long-term warming and patterns of climate variability (e.g., El Niño/La Niña).

Data from ERSSTv5 at www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/ext... 🌊
December 26, 2024 at 8:49 PM
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Looking for the latest global #fluxnet carbon NEE, water, GPP, transpiration upscaling 2001-2021 (daily 0.25 degree, monthly 0.05 deg) - Fluxcom-X paper now out in Biogeosciences: @jakenelson.bsky.social and crew, X-BASE: bg.copernicus.org/articles/21/... Data at: meta.icos-cp.eu/collections/...
X-BASE: the first terrestrial carbon and water flux products from an extended data-driven scaling framework, FLUXCOM-X
Abstract. Mapping in situ eddy covariance measurements of terrestrial land–atmosphere fluxes to the globe is a key method for diagnosing the Earth system from a data-driven perspective. We describe th...
bg.copernicus.org
November 18, 2024 at 1:52 PM
Delighted to meet my old friends, whom I got to know at @ethzurich.bsky.social three years ago, at a ecology conference in Haikou, China. It brings back many happy memories. Cheers!!
November 17, 2024 at 2:44 AM
After a forestry remote sensing class, I encountered the beautiful autumn scenery on campus one afternoon.
November 14, 2024 at 7:37 PM