Uma Bhatt, Professor of Atmospheric Sciences,
University of Alaska Fairbanks
Research - Greening/Browning of Arctic Tundra
- US Bhatt, DA Walker, MK Raynolds, PA Bieniek, HE Epstein, JC Comiso, JE Pinzon, CJ Tucker, MA Steele, W. Ermold, and J. Zhang, 2017: Changing seasonality of Panarctic tundra vegetation in relationship to climatic variables. (special biomass issue) Environmental Research Letters. 12 (2017) 055003 https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aa6b0b, pdf.
- Walker, Donald; Daniëls, Fred; Alsos, Inger; Bhatt, Uma; Breen, Amy; Buchhorn, Marcel; Bültmann, Helga; Edwards, Mary; Ehrich, Dorothee; Epstein, Howard; Gould, William; Ims, Rolf; Meltofte, Hans; Murray, David; Raynolds, Martha; Talbot, Stephen, 2016: Circumpolar Arctic vegetation: A hierarchic review and roadmap toward an internationally consistent approach to survey, archive and classify tundra plot data, special issue on biomass of Environmental Research Letters, 11, 055005 doi:10.1088, pdf.
- Bieniek, P.A., US Bhatt, DA Walker, MK Raynolds, JC Comiso, HE Epstein, JE Pinzon, CJ Tucker, RL Thoman, H Tran, N Mölders, M Steele, J Zhang, and W Ermold, 2015: Climate drivers of changing seasonality of Alaska coastal tundra vegetation productivity, Earth Interactions, 19 (19), DOI: 10.1175/EI-D-15-0013.1, pdf. other resources: Bulletin of American Meteorological Society June 2016 papers of note, page 904-5.
- Epstein,H. E., U. S. Bhatt, M. K. Raynolds, D. A. Walker, P. A. Bieniek, C. J. Tucker, J. Pinzon, I. H. Myers-Smith, B. C. Forbes, M. Macias-Fauria, N. T. Boelman, S. K. Sweet, 2015: Tundra Greeness [in Arctic Report Card 2015], http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/reportcard.
- Epstein,H.E., U.S. Bhatt, M.K. Raynolds, D.A. Walker, P.A. Bieniek, C.J. Tucker, J. Pinzon, H. Zeng, G.J. Jia, K.C. Guay, S.J. Goetz, 2014: Tundra Greenness [in Arctic Report Card 2014], http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/reportcard.
- Bhatt, U.S., D.A. Walker, J.E. Walsh, E.C. Carmack, K.E. Frey, W.N. Meier, S.E. Moore, F.J.W. Parmentier, E. Post, V.E. Romanovsky, and W.R. Simpson, 2014: Implications of Arctic Sea Ice Decline for the Earth System, Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 39, 57-89, pdf.
- Epstein, H,E, U.S. Bhatt, D.A. Walker, M.K. Raynolds, P.A. Bieniek, J. Comiso, J. Pinzon, C.J. Tucker, I.V. Polyakov, G.J. Jia, H. Zeng, B.C. Forbes, M. Macias-Fauria, L. Xu, R. Myneni, G.V. Frost, G.R. Shaver, M.S. Bret-Harte, M.C. Mack, and A.V. Rocha, 2013: Vegetation [in Arctic Report Card 2013], http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/reportcard.
- Post, E., U.S. Bhatt, C.M. Bitz, J. F. Brodie, T.L. Fulton, M. Hebblewhite, J. Kerby, S.J. Kutz, I. Stirling, and D A. Walker, 2013: Ecological Consequences of Sea Ice Decline, Science, 341, 519-524, pdf.
- Bhatt, U.S., D.A. Walker, M.K. Raynolds, P.A. Bieniek, H.E. Epstein, J.C. Comiso, J.E. Pinzon, C.J. Tucker, and I.V. Polyakov, 2013: Recent Declines in Warming and Arctic Vegetation Greening Trends over Pan-Arctic Tundra, Remote Sensing (Special NDVI3g Issue), 5, 4229-4254; doi:10.3390/rs5094229, pdf.
- Masson-Delmotte, V., D. Swingedouw, A. Landais., M.-S. Seidenkrantz, E. Gauthier,, V. Bichet, C. Massa, B. Perren, V. Jomelli, G. Adalgeirsdottir, J. Hesselbjerg Christensen, J. Arneborg, U. Bhatt, D.A.Walker, B. Elberling, F. Gillet-Chaulet, C. Ritz, H. Gallée, M. van den Broeke, X. Fettweis, A. de Vernal, and B.Vinther, 2012: Greenland climate change: from the past to the future. WIREs Clim Change, 3: 427–449. doi: 10.1002/wcc.186, pdf.
- Walker, D.A., U.S. Bhatt, H.E. Epstein, P. Bieniek, J. Comiso, G.V. Frost, J. Pinzon, M.K Raynolds, and C.J. Tucker, 2012: [The Arctic] Changing Arctic Tundra Vegetation Biomass and Greenness— [in "State of the Climate in 2011"]. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 93 (7), S138-S139, pdf.
- Epstein, H.E., M.K. Raynolds, D.A. Walker, U.S. Bhatt, C.J. Tucker, and J.E. Pinzon, 2012: Dynamics of aboveground phytomass of the circumpolar arctic tundra during the past three decades, Environ. Res. Lett., doi:10.1088/1748-9326/7/1/015506, pdf.
- Walker, D.A., H.E. Epstein, M.K. Raynolds, P. Kuss, M.A. Kopecky, G.V. Frost, F.J.A. Daniëls, M.O. Leibman, N.G. Moskalenko, G.V. Matyshak, O.V. Khitun, A.V. Khomutov, B.C. Forbes, U.S. Bhatt, A.N. Kade, C.M. Vonlanthen, 2012: Environment, vegetation and greenness (NDVI) along the North America and Eurasia Arctic transects, Environ. Res. Lett.,doi:10.1088/1748-9326/7/1/015504, pdf.
- Walker, D.A., U.S. Bhatt, T.V. Callaghan, J.C. Comiso, H.E. Epstein, B.C. Forbes, M. Gill, W.A.Gould, H Henry, J. Jia, S. Kokelj,T.C. Lantz, S.F. Oberbauer, J.E. Pinzon, M.K. Raynolds, G.R. Shaver, C.J. Tucker, C.E. Tweedie, and P.J. Webber, 2011: Arctic: Land: Vegetation [in "State of the Climate in 2010"]. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc.,92 (6), S150-S152. pdf.
- Walker, D.A., U.S. Bhatt, M.K. Raynolds, V.E. Romanovsky, G.P. Kofinas, J.P. Kuss, B.C. Forbes, F. Stammler, T. Kumpula, E. Kaarlejärvi, M.O. Leibman, N.G. Moskalenko, A.A. Gubarkov, A.V. Khomutov, D.S. Drozdov, H.E. Epstein, Q. Yu, G.J. Jia, J.O. Kaplan, J.C. Comiso, 2011: Cumulative effects of rapid land-cover and land-use changes on the Yamal Peninsula, Russia. In:Eurasian Arctic Land Cover and Land Use in a Changing Climate Gutman, Garik; Reissell, Anni (Eds.) 1st Edition., 2011, VI, 226 p. 100 illus., Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-9117-8, DOI 10.1007/978-90-481-9118-5_2. pdf.
- Goetz, S.J., H.E., Epstein, D. Alcaraz, U.S. Bhatt, J. Comiso, G.J. Jia, J.O. Kaplan, H. Lischke, A., Lloyd, Q. Yu, and D.A. Walker, 2011: Recent Changes in Arctic Vegetation: Satellite Observations and Simulation Model Predictions. In: Eurasian Arctic Land Cover and Land Use in a Changing Climate Gutman, Garik; Reissell, Anni (Eds.) 1st Edition., 2011, VI, 226 p. 100 illus., Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-9117-8, DOI 10.1007/978-90-481-9118-5_2. pdf.
- Bhatt, U.S., D.A. Walker, M.K. Raynolds, J.C. Comiso, H.E. Epstein, G.Jia, R. Gens, J.E. Pinzon, C.J. Tucker, C.E. Tweedie, and P.J. Webber, 2010: Circumpolar Arctic tundra vegetation change is linked to sea-ice decline, Earth Interactions. August 2010, Vol. 14, No. 8: 1-20. doi: 10.1175/2010EI315.1. pdf.
- Walker, D.A., U.S. Bhatt, J.C. Comiso, H.E. Epstein, W.A. Gould, G.H.R. Henry, G.J. Jia, S.V. Kokelj, T.C. Lantz, J.A. Mercado-Díaz, J.E. Pinzon, M.K. Raynolds, G.R. Shaver, C.J. Tucker, C.E. Tweedie, P.J. Webber, 2010: Arctic: Land: Vegetation [in "State of the Climate in 2009"]. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc.,91 (6), S79-S82. pdf.
- Walker, D.W., M.O. Leibman, H.E. Epstein, B.C. Forbes, U.S. Bhatt, M.K. Raynolds, J.C. Comiso, A.A. Gubarkov, A V. Khomutov, G J. Jia, E. Kaarlejärvi, J O. Kaplan, T. Kumpula, P. Kuss, G. Matyshak, N.G. Moskalenko, P. Orekhov, V.E. Romanovsky, N.K. Ukraientseva, and Q. Yu, 2009: Spatial and temporal patterns of greenness on the Yamal Peninsula, Russia: Interactions of ecological and social factors affecting Arctic NDVI , Environ. Res. Lett. 4, 045004 (16pp) doi:10.1088/1748-9326/4/4/045004. pdf.
- Walker, D.A, U.S. Bhatt, M.K. Raynolds, J.E. Comiso, H.E. Epstein and G.J. Jia, 2009: Land: Vegetation, in State of the Climate in 2008: Arctic. Peterson, T. and M. Baringer eds., Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.
