Vivek K. Arora
Research Scientist
Terrestrial carbon and nitrogen cycles, Representation of te
Environment and climate change
Canada
Biography
Member of the American Geophysical Union Supervision of graduate students at the Centre pour l'étude et la simulation du climat à l'échelle régionale (Centre ESCER), Université du Québec à Montréal. Guest lectures for graduate courses (on terrestrial biosphere and its interactions with the climate system) at the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria. Contributing author of Chapter 7 (Couplings between the changes in climate system and biogeochemistry) of the fourth assessment report of the IPCC. Contributing author of Chapter 6 (Carbon and other biogeochemical cycles) of the fifth assessment report of the IPCC. Lead author of Chapter 8 (Modeling the climate response to methane) in Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme's (AMAP) report titled AMAP Assessment 2015: Methane as an Arctic climate forcer.
Research Interest
Development, application and implementation of 1) terrestrial ecosystem models and 2) surface hydrological models within the framework of earth system models
Publications
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Rabin, S. S., Melton, J. R., Lasslop, G., Bachelet, D., Forrest, M., Hantson, S., Kaplan, J. O., Li, F., Mangeon, S., Ward, D. S., Yue, C., Arora, V. K., Hickler, T., Kloster, S., Knorr, W., Nieradzik, L., Spessa, A., Folberth, G. A., Sheehan, T., Voulgarakis, A., Kelley, D. I., Prentice, I. C., Sitch, S., Harrison, S., and Arneth, A. (2017) The Fire Modeling Intercomparison Project (FireMIP), phase 1: experimental and analytical protocols with detailed model descriptions, Geosci. Model Dev., 10, 1175-1197, doi:10.5194/gmd-10-1175-2017.
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Fyfe, J. C., C. Derksen, L. Mudryk, G. M. Flato, B. D. Santer, N. C. Swart, N. P. Molotch, X. Zhang, H. Wan, V. K. Arora, J. Scinocca and Y. Jiao (2017) Large near-term projected snowpack loss over the western United States, Nature Communications, doi:10.1038/ncomms14996.
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Shrestha, R. K., Arora, V. K., Melton, J. R., and Sushama, L. (2017) An assessment of geographical distribution of different plant functional types over North America simulated using the CLASS-CTEM modelling framework, Biogeosciences Discuss., doi:10.5194/bg-2017-35, in review.
