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Human and nature dynamics (HANDY): Modeling inequality and use of resources in the collapse or sustainability of societies by Motesharrei, Safa, Rivas, Jorge, Kalnay, Eugenia

“…There are widespread concerns that current trends in resource-use are unsustainable, but possibilities of overshoot/collapse remain controversial. Collapses…”
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Local cooling and warming effects of forests based on satellite observations by Li, Yan, Zhao, Maosheng, Motesharrei, Safa, Mu, Qiaozhen, Kalnay, Eugenia, Li, Shuangcheng

“…The biophysical effects of forests on climate have been extensively studied with climate models. However, models cannot accurately reproduce local climate…”
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Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Global NDVI Trends: Correlations with Climate and Human Factors by Liu, Ya, Li, Yan, Li, Shuangcheng, Motesharrei, Safa

“…Changes in vegetation activity are driven by multiple natural and anthropogenic factors, which can be reflected by Normalized Difference Vegetation Index…”
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Climate model shows large-scale wind and solar farms in the Sahara increase rain and vegetation by Li, Yan, Kalnay, Eugenia, Motesharrei, Safa, Rivas, Jorge, Kucharski, Fred, Kirk-Davidoff, Daniel, Bach, Eviatar, Zeng, Ning

“…Wind and solar farms offer a major pathway to clean, renewable energies. However, these farms would significantly change land surface properties, and, if…”
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Potential and Actual impacts of deforestation and afforestation on land surface temperature by Li, Yan, Zhao, Maosheng, Mildrexler, David J., Motesharrei, Safa, Mu, Qiaozhen, Kalnay, Eugenia, Zhao, Fang, Li, Shuangcheng, Wang, Kaicun

“…Forests are undergoing significant changes throughout the globe. These changes can modify water, energy, and carbon balance of the land surface, which can…”
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Local Atmosphere–Ocean Predictability: Dynamical Origins, Lead Times, and Seasonality by Bach, Eviatar, Motesharrei, Safa, Kalnay, Eugenia, Ruiz-Barradas, Alfredo

“…Due to the physical coupling between atmosphere and ocean, information about the ocean helps to better predict the future of the atmosphere, and in turn,…”
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Inconsistent estimates of forest cover change in China between 2000 and 2013 from multiple datasets: differences in parameters, spatial resolution, and definitions by Li, Yan, Sulla-Menashe, Damien, Motesharrei, Safa, Song, Xiao-Peng, Kalnay, Eugenia, Ying, Qing, Li, Shuangcheng, Ma, Zongwen

“…The Chinese National Forest Inventory (NFI) has reported increased forest coverage in China since 2000, however, the new satellite-based dataset Global Forest…”
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Modeling Sustainability: Population, Inequality, Consumption, and Bidirectional Coupling of the Earth and Human Systems by Motesharrei, Safa, Rivas, Jorge, Kalnay, Eugenia, Asrar, Ghassem R., Busalacchi, Antonio J., Cahalan, Robert F., Cane, Mark A., Colwell, Rita R., Feng, Kuishuang, Franklin, Rachel S., Hubacek, Klaus, Miralles-Wilhelm, Fernando, Miyoshi, Takemasa, Ruth, Matthias, Sagdeev, Roald, Shirmohammadi, Adel, Shukla, Jagadish, Srebric, Jelena, Yakovenko, Victor M., Zeng, Ning

“…Over the last two centuries, the impact of the Human System has grown dramatically, becoming strongly dominant within the Earth System in many different ways…”
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Causality Analysis: Identifying the Leading Element in a Coupled Dynamical System by BozorgMagham, Amir E, Motesharrei, Safa, Penny, Stephen G, Kalnay, Eugenia

“…Physical systems with time-varying internal couplings are abundant in nature. While the full governing equations of these systems are typically unknown due to…”
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Finding the driver of local ocean–atmosphere coupling in reanalyses and CMIP5 climate models by Ruiz-Barradas, Alfredo, Kalnay, Eugenia, Peña, Malaquías, BozorgMagham, Amir E., Motesharrei, Safa

“…Identification of the driver of coupled anomalies in the climate system is of great importance for a better understanding of the system and for its use in…”
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Carrying Capacity of Two-way Coupled Earth–Human Systems by Motesharrei, Safa

“…Over the last two centuries, the impact of the Human System has grown dramatically, becoming strongly dominant within the Earth System in many different ways…”
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The role of spatial scale and background climate in the latitudinal temperature response to deforestation by Li, Yan, De Noblet-Ducoudré, Nathalie, Davin, Edouard L, Motesharrei, Safa, Zeng, Ning, Li, Shuangcheng, Kalnay, Eugenia

“…Previous modeling and empirical studies have shown that the biophysical impact of deforestation is to warm the tropics and cool the extratropics. In this…”
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Minimal models of human-nature interaction by Motesharrei, Safa

“…Over the last two centuries, the Human System went from having a small impact on the Earth System to becoming dominant, because both population and per capita…”
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