Leaf Temperature and Energy Fluxes

TL;DR: The ERA-Interim/Land dataset as mentioned in this paper provides a global integrated and coherent estimate of soil moisture and snow water equivalent, which can also be used for the initialization of numerical weather prediction and climate models.

TL;DR: The Land Use Model Intercomparison Project (LUMIP) aims to further advance understanding of the impacts of land-use and land-cover change (LULCC) on climate, specifically addressing the following questions.

TL;DR: The mean and variation of canopy surface temperature were driven by differences in functional group composition (herbs‐ vs. grass dominance), to a lesser extent by plant diversity, and were partly mediated the metrics of canopy structure but also by direct effects unrelated to the structural metrics considered.

TL;DR: This study uses high-resolution remote sensing to assess pelagic Sargassum in the Florida Keys, achieving 88% accuracy in feature extraction and revealing temperature anomalies in 1-21% of detected mats, intensifying with Sargassum density.

TL;DR: A fire model, running inside the modular framework of the Lund-Potsdam-Jena Dynamic Global Vegetation Model, yielded fire return intervals in good agreement with observations for many regions (except parts of semiarid Africa and boreal Siberia), and it is suggested that further improvement for these regions must involve additional process descriptions such as permafrost and fuel/fire dynamics.

TL;DR: Despite an exponential rise with temperature, g m does not keep pace with increased capacity for CO2 uptake at the site of Rubisco, showing that transfer of CO2 from the intercellular air space to Rubisco is a very substantial limitation on photosynthesis, especially at high temperature.

TL;DR: While LSM is a useful measure of sclerophylly, its separation into leaf density and thickness may be more appropriate as they often vary independently and appear to be more responsive to environmental gradients than LSM.