Earths Future

Papers
(The TQCC of Earths Future is 12. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Twenty‐First Century Drought Projections in the CMIP6 Forcing Scenarios438
Assessment to China's Recent Emission Pattern Shifts266
Projected Impacts of Climate Change on Drought Patterns Over East Africa165
Insights From CMIP6 for Australia's Future Climate164
Partitioning the Uncertainty of Ensemble Projections of Global Glacier Mass Change107
Increased Flood Exposure Due to Climate Change and Population Growth in the United States105
Regional Climate Sensitivity of Climate Extremes in CMIP6 Versus CMIP5 Multimodel Ensembles97
Global CO2 Consumption by Silicate Rock Chemical Weathering: Its Past and Future95
Identifying a Safe and Just Corridor for People and the Planet86
Iran's Agriculture in the Anthropocene80
Similarities and Differences in the Mechanisms Causing the European Summer Heatwaves in 2003, 2010, and 201876
Event‐Based Storylines to Address Climate Risk75
Causes of the Widespread 2019–2020 Australian Bushfire Season74
Seasonality, Intensity, and Duration of Rainfall Extremes Change in a Warmer Climate74
The 2018–2020 Multi‐Year Drought Sets a New Benchmark in Europe74
Heat Stress Indicators in CMIP6: Estimating Future Trends and Exceedances of Impact‐Relevant Thresholds70
Projecting Exposure to Extreme Climate Impact Events Across Six Event Categories and Three Spatial Scales69
Climate Change and Changes in Compound Coastal‐Riverine Flooding Hazard Along the U.S. Coasts67
Analysis of Compound Climate Extremes and Exposed Population in Africa Under Two Different Emission Scenarios67
Projected Changes in Socioeconomic Exposure to Heatwaves in South Asia Under Changing Climate67
Guidelines for Studying Diverse Types of Compound Weather and Climate Events67
Increasing Human‐Perceived Heat Stress Risks Exacerbated by Urbanization in China: A Comparative Study Based on Multiple Metrics64
TROPOMI NO2 in the United States: A Detailed Look at the Annual Averages, Weekly Cycles, Effects of Temperature, and Correlation With Surface NO2 Concentrations62
Future Drought in the Dry Lands of Asia Under the 1.5 and 2.0 °C Warming Scenarios59
The Anthropocene: Comparing Its Meaning in Geology (Chronostratigraphy) with Conceptual Approaches Arising in Other Disciplines58
Nearly Half of Global Vegetated Area Experienced Inconsistent Vegetation Growth in Terms of Greenness, Cover, and Productivity58
High‐Resolution Data Sets for Global Carbonate and Silicate Rock Weathering Carbon Sinks and Their Change Trends57
Global Agricultural Water Scarcity Assessment Incorporating Blue and Green Water Availability Under Future Climate Change56
A Framework to Quantify the Uncertainty Contribution of GCMs Over Multiple Sources in Hydrological Impacts of Climate Change56
Tropical Cyclone Compound Flood Hazard Assessment: From Investigating Drivers to Quantifying Extreme Water Levels56
Intercomparison of Magnitudes and Trends in Anthropogenic Surface Emissions From Bottom‐Up Inventories, Top‐Down Estimates, and Emission Scenarios55
Future Transboundary Water Stress and Its Drivers Under Climate Change: A Global Study50
Robustness of CMIP6 Historical Global Mean Temperature Simulations: Trends, Long‐Term Persistence, Autocorrelation, and Distributional Shape50
The State of the Art in Modeling Waterlogging Impacts on Plants: What Do We Know and What Do We Need to Know50
“Certain Uncertainty: The Role of Internal Climate Variability in Projections of Regional Climate Change and Risk Management”50
Multisector Dynamics: Advancing the Science of Complex Adaptive Human‐Earth Systems47
Remote Sensing Big Data for Water Environment Monitoring: Current Status, Challenges, and Future Prospects47
Heatwaves in Southeast Asia and Their Changes in a Warmer World47
Doubling of U.S. Population Exposure to Climate Extremes by 205046
Responses of Precipitation and Runoff to Climate Warming and Implications for Future Drought Changes in China45
Time Evolution of the Surface Urban Heat Island45
Integrated Assessment of Urban Overheating Impacts on Human Life45
Tropical Cyclone Frequency44
The Value of Initial Condition Large Ensembles to Robust Adaptation Decision‐Making44
Implications of CMIP6 Projected Drying Trends for 21st Century Amazonian Drought Risk44
The COVID‐19 Pandemic Not Only Poses Challenges, but Also Opens Opportunities for Sustainable Transformation42
Dual Influence of Climate Change and Anthropogenic Activities on the Spatiotemporal Vegetation Dynamics Over the Qinghai‐Tibetan Plateau From 1981 to 201542
High‐Resolution Gridded Population Projections for China Under the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways42
Exploring the Drivers of Global and Local Sea‐Level Change Over the 21st Century and Beyond42
Impacts of Global Climate Warming on Meteorological and Hydrological Droughts and Their Propagations41
Climate Warming Consistently Reduces Grassland Ecosystem Productivity41
Risky Development: Increasing Exposure to Natural Hazards in the United States41
Future Population Exposure to Daytime and Nighttime Heat Waves in South Asia41
The Pakistan Flood of August 2022: Causes and Implications40
Widespread Race and Class Disparities in Surface Urban Heat Extremes Across the United States39
California's Central Valley Groundwater Wells Run Dry During Recent Drought39
Amplified Drought and Flood Risk Under Future Socioeconomic and Climatic Change38
Unprecedented Drought Challenges for Texas Water Resources in a Changing Climate: What Do Researchers and Stakeholders Need to Know?38
Rising Trends in Heatwave Metrics Across Southern California38
Attributing and Projecting Heatwaves Is Hard: We Can Do Better37
Forecasting the Frequency and Magnitude of Postfire Debris Flows Across Southern California37
The Greater Mekong's Climate‐Water‐Energy Nexus: How ENSO‐Triggered Regional Droughts Affect Power Supply and CO2 Emissions37
Future Risks of Unprecedented Compound Heat Waves Over Three Vast Urban Agglomerations in China37
Biases Beyond the Mean in CMIP6 Extreme Precipitation: A Global Investigation37
Directions for Research on Climate and Conflict37
Flood Risks in Sinking Delta Cities: Time for a Reevaluation?36
Increased Global Vegetation Productivity Despite Rising Atmospheric Dryness Over the Last Two Decades36
The Value of Urban Flood Modeling36
Coastal Migration due to 21st Century Sea‐Level Rise35
Global Socioeconomic Risk of Precipitation Extremes Under Climate Change34
Cascading Hazards in the Aftermath of Australia's 2019/2020 Black Summer Wildfires34
Can Reservoir Regulation Along the Yellow River Be a Sustainable Way to Save a Sinking Delta?34
Future Climate Change Hotspots Under Different 21st Century Warming Scenarios34
Fates and Use Efficiency of Nitrogen Fertilizer in Maize Cropping Systems and Their Responses to Technologies and Management Practices: A Global Analysis on Field 15N Tracer Studies34
Uncertainty and Bias in Global to Regional Scale Assessments of Current and Future Coastal Flood Risk33
Demand for Ports to 2050: Climate Policy, Growing Trade and the Impacts of Sea‐Level Rise33
Quantifying Water Scarcity in Northern China Within the Context of Climatic and Societal Changes and South‐to‐North Water Diversion32
Urbanization Contributes Little to Global Warming but Substantially Intensifies Local and Regional Land Surface Warming32
Dams and Climate Interact to Alter River Flow Regimes Across the United States32
Intensifying Australian Heatwave Trends and Their Sensitivity to Observational Data32
Cloud‐Nucleating Particles Over the Southern Ocean in a Changing Climate32
Increasing Heat‐Stress Inequality in a Warming Climate32
Future Global Convective Environments in CMIP6 Models32
Spatially Explicit Inventory of Sources of Nitrogen Inputs to the Yellow Sea, East China Sea, and South China Sea for the Period 1970–201032
Selecting CMIP6 GCMs for CORDEX Dynamical Downscaling: Model Performance, Independence, and Climate Change Signals32
Significant Increase of the Global Population Exposure to Increased Precipitation Extremes in the Future32
Cold‐Season Arctic Amplification Driven by Arctic Ocean‐Mediated Seasonal Energy Transfer31
The Digital Forest: Mapping a Decade of Knowledge on Technological Applications for Forest Ecosystems31
Uncertainties, Limits, and Benefits of Climate Change Mitigation for Soil Moisture Drought in Southwestern North America31
Assessing Shifts in Regional Hydroclimatic Conditions of U.S. River Basins in Response to Climate Change over the 21st Century31
Can Exploratory Modeling of Water Scarcity Vulnerabilities and Robustness Be Scenario Neutral?30
The Magnitude of Regional‐Scale Tree Mortality Caused by the Invasive Pathogen Phytophthora ramorum30
Changes in West African Summer Monsoon Precipitation Under Stratospheric Aerosol Geoengineering30
Identifying Key Drivers of Wildfires in the Contiguous US Using Machine Learning and Game Theory Interpretation30
Past Variance and Future Projections of the Environmental Conditions Driving Western U.S. Summertime Wildfire Burn Area30
Localized Scenarios and Latitudinal Patterns of Vertical and Lateral Resilience of Tidal Marshes to Sea‐Level Rise in the Contiguous United States30
Projected Changes in Compound Flood Hazard From Riverine and Coastal Floods in Northwestern Europe30
Defining Robustness, Vulnerabilities, and Consequential Scenarios for Diverse Stakeholder Interests in Institutionally Complex River Basins30
Assessing River Basin Development Given Water‐Energy‐Food‐Environment Interdependencies30
Qinghai‐Tibet Plateau Permafrost at Risk in the Late 21st Century29
Phosphorus Supply Increases Nitrogen Transformation Rates and Retention in Soil: A Global Meta‐Analysis29
In Water‐Limited Landscapes, an Anthropocene Exchange: Trading Lakes for Irrigated Agriculture29
Climate Controls on River Chemistry28
High Sensitivity of Compound Drought and Heatwave Events to Global Warming in the Future28
Reduced Complexity Model Intercomparison Project Phase 2: Synthesizing Earth System Knowledge for Probabilistic Climate Projections28
Hydrological Intensification Will Increase the Complexity of Water Resource Management28
Projected Changes in Reference Evapotranspiration in California and Nevada: Implications for Drought and Wildland Fire Danger27
The Arctic Ocean in CMIP6 Models: Biases and Projected Changes in Temperature and Salinity27
Global Spatio‐Temporal Assessment of Changes in Multiple Ecosystem Services Under Four IPCC SRES Land‐use Scenarios27
Social‐Environmental Extremes: Rethinking Extraordinary Events as Outcomes of Interacting Biophysical and Social Systems27
Sea Level Rise Driving Increasingly Predictable Coastal Inundation in Sydney, Australia27
Explicit Calculations of Wet‐Bulb Globe Temperature Compared With Approximations and Why It Matters for Labor Productivity26
Patterns and Distributions of Urban Expansion in Global Watersheds26
Larger Drought and Flood Hazards and Adverse Impacts on Population and Economic Productivity Under 2.0 than 1.5°C Warming26
Comparison of Changing Population Exposure to Droughts in River Basins of the Tarim and the Indus26
The Carbon Sink Potential of Southern China After Two Decades of Afforestation26
Urbanization Impacts on Evapotranspiration Across Various Spatio‐Temporal Scales25
Trends, Breaks, and Biases in the Frequency of Reported Glacier Lake Outburst Floods25
Anthropocene Geomorphic Change. Climate or Human Activities?25
Comparisons Between CMIP5 and CMIP6 Models: Simulations of Climate Indices Influencing Food Security, Infrastructure Resilience, and Human Health in Canada25
Increase in Population Exposure Due to Dry and Wet Extremes in India Under a Warming Climate25
Evaluation of Extreme Temperatures Over Australia in the Historical Simulations of CMIP5 and CMIP6 Models24
Evaluating Participatory Modeling Methods for Co‐creating Pathways to Sustainability24
Projected Changes in Increased Drought Risks Over South Asia Under a Warmer Climate23
How International Economic Sanctions Harm the Environment23
Linking Total Precipitable Water to Precipitation Extremes Globally23
Impact of Rocket Launch and Space Debris Air Pollutant Emissions on Stratospheric Ozone and Global Climate23
Implications of Increasing Household Air Conditioning Use Across the United States Under a Warming Climate23
Global Cooling Hiatus Driven by an AMOC Overshoot in a Carbon Dioxide Removal Scenario23
Hydrology as a Driver of Floating River Plastic Transport22
Effects of Vegetation Changes and Multiple Environmental Factors on Evapotranspiration Across China Over the Past 34 Years22
Changes in Global and Regional Characteristics of Heat Stress Waves in the 21st Century22
The Asynergies of Structural Disaster Risk Reduction Measures: Comparing Floods and Earthquakes22
Earth System Models Are Not Capturing Present‐Day Tropical Forest Carbon Dynamics22
From Pleistocene to Pyrocene: Fire Replaces Ice22
The Consumption‐Based Carbon Emissions in the Jing‐Jin‐Ji Urban Agglomeration Over China's Economic Transition21
Climatic Drivers of Extreme Sea Level Events Along the Coastline of Western Australia21
From Flood to Drip Irrigation Under Climate Change: Impacts on Evapotranspiration and Groundwater Recharge in the Mediterranean Region of Valencia (Spain)21
From Anthropocene to Noosphere: The Great Acceleration21
Anthropogenic Effects on the Contemporary Sediment Budget of the Lower Rhine‐Meuse Delta Channel Network21
Solar or Diesel: A Comparison of Costs for Groundwater‐Fed Irrigation in Sub‐Saharan Africa Under Two Energy Solutions21
Does Transfer Payments Promote Low‐Carbon Development of Resource‐Exhausted Cities in China?21
Impact‐Based Forecasting for Pluvial Floods20
Drivers and Mechanisms of the 2021 Pacific Northwest Heatwave20
Evaluation of the CMIP6 Precipitation Simulations Over Global Land20
Introducing NARCliM1.5: Evaluating the Performance of Regional Climate Projections for Southeast Australia for 1950–210020
Mapping the Vulnerability of Arctic Wetlands to Global Warming20
Australian Coastal Flooding Trends and Forcing Factors19
Quantifying On‐Farm Nitrous Oxide Emission Reductions in Food Supply Chains19
Representing Socio‐Economic Uncertainty in Human System Models19
Increasing Risk of Ecological Change to Major Rivers of the World With Global Warming19
Evolving Tropical Cyclone Tracks in the North Atlantic in a Warming Climate19
Advancing the Evidence Base of Future Warming Impacts on Human Mobility in African Drylands19
Quantifying the Uncertainty Sources of Future Climate Projections and Narrowing Uncertainties With Bias Correction Techniques19
Future Land Use/Land Cover Change Has Nontrivial and Potentially Dominant Impact on Global Gross Primary Productivity19
SSP‐Based Land‐Use Change Scenarios: A Critical Uncertainty in Future Regional Climate Change Projections19
Heterogeneous Spatial Effects of FDI on CO2 Emissions in China19
A Warming Climate Adds Complexity to Post‐Fire Hydrologic Hazard Planning18
Contrasting Fate of Western Third Pole's Water Resources Under 21st Century Climate Change18
Atmospheric River Precipitation Enhanced by Climate Change: A Case Study of the Storm That Contributed to California's Oroville Dam Crisis18
Groundwater Rise and Associated Flooding in Coastal Settlements Due To Sea‐Level Rise: A Review of Processes and Methods18
A Simulation‐Based Framework for Earthquake Risk‐Informed and People‐Centered Decision Making on Future Urban Planning18
Bridging the Gap Between Biofuels and Biodiversity Through Monetizing Environmental Services of Miscanthus Cultivation18
Decadal Variability of Winter Warm Arctic‐Cold Eurasia Dipole Patterns Modulated by Pacific Decadal Oscillation and Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation18
Significant Reductions in Crop Yields From Air Pollution and Heat Stress in the United States18
How Much Food Can We Grow in Urban Areas? Food Production and Crop Yields of Urban Agriculture: A Meta‐Analysis18
Modulation of Land Photosynthesis by the Indian Ocean Dipole: Satellite‐Based Observations and CMIP6 Future Projections18
Significant Land Contributions to Interannual Predictability of East Asian Summer Monsoon Rainfall17
CMIP5 Intermodel Relationships in the Baseline Southern Ocean Climate System and With Future Projections17
Rates of Historical Anthropogenic Soil Erosion in the Midwestern United States17
Carbon Cycle Response to Temperature Overshoot Beyond 2°C: An Analysis of CMIP6 Models17
Uncertainty Analysis in Multi‐Sector Systems: Considerations for Risk Analysis, Projection, and Planning for Complex Systems17
Spatial Simulation of Codesigned Land Cover Change Scenarios in New England: Alternative Futures and Their Consequences for Conservation Priorities17
Anthropogenic Warming and Population Growth May Double US Heat Stress by the Late 21st Century17
Projected Increases in Global Terrestrial Net Primary Productivity Loss Caused by Drought Under Climate Change17
Dynamic Driving Forces of India's Emissions From Production and Consumption Perspectives16
Global Marine Heatwaves and Cold‐Spells in Present Climate to Future Projections16
Predominant Type of Dust Storms That Influences Air Quality Over Northern China and Future Projections16
Fire and Ice: The Impact of Wildfire‐Affected Albedo and Irradiance on Glacier Melt16
Non‐Stationary Probabilistic Tsunami Hazard Assessments Incorporating Climate‐Change‐Driven Sea Level Rise16
A Participatory Science Approach to Expanding Instream Infrastructure Inventories16
Detectable Human Influence on Changes in Precipitation Extremes Across China16
How to Balance Green and Grain in Marginal Mountainous Areas?16
High‐Latitude Stratospheric Aerosol Injection to Preserve the Arctic16
Projections of Mountain Snowpack Loss for Wolverine Denning Elevations in the Rocky Mountains16
Caught Between Extremes: Understanding Human‐Water Interactions During Drought‐To‐Flood Events in the Horn of Africa16
Future Changes in Climate and Hydroclimate Extremes in East Africa16
A High‐End Estimate of Sea Level Rise for Practitioners16
Irreversible and Large‐Scale Heavy Metal Pollution Arising From Increased Damming and Untreated Water Reuse in the Nile Delta16
Delimiting China's Urban Growth Boundaries Under Localized Shared Socioeconomic Pathways and Various Urban Expansion Modes16
Globally Increasing Atmospheric Aridity Over the 21st Century15
How May the Choice of Downscaling Techniques and Meteorological Reference Observations Affect Future Hydroclimate Projections?15
Simulated Impact of Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement on Atmospheric CO2 Removal in the Bering Sea15
The Upper Tail of Precipitation in Convection‐Permitting Regional Climate Models and Their Utility in Nonstationary Rainfall and Flood Frequency Analysis15
Inundation of Stormwater Infrastructure Is Common and Increases Risk of Flooding in Coastal Urban Areas Along the US Atlantic Coast15
Potential for Electric Vehicle Adoption to Mitigate Extreme Air Quality Events in China15
What Does Global Land Climate Look Like at 2°C Warming?15
Uncovering the Past and Future Climate Drivers of Wheat Yield Shocks in Europe With Machine Learning15
Quantitative Stress Test of Compound Coastal‐Fluvial Floods in China's Pearl River Delta15
Climate Change Determines Future Population Exposure to Summertime Compound Dry and Hot Events15
A Cross‐Cutting Approach for Relating Anthropocene, Environmental Injustice and Sacrifice Zones15
Net‐Zero CO2 Germany—A Retrospect From the Year 205015
The Implications of Global Change for the Co‐Evolution of Argentina's Integrated Energy‐Water‐Land Systems15
Multivariate Analysis of Compound Flood Hazard Across Canada's Atlantic, Pacific and Great Lakes Coastal Areas15
Stable ≠ Sustainable: Delta Dynamics Versus the Human Need for Stability15
Knowledge Priorities on Climate Change and Water in the Upper Indus Basin: A Horizon Scanning Exercise to Identify the Top 100 Research Questions in Social and Natural Sciences15
Scenarios of Human Responses to Unprecedented Social‐Environmental Extreme Events15
Vulnerability to Water Shortage Under Current and Future Water Supply‐Demand Conditions Across U.S. River Basins15
Mapping 21st Century Global Coastal Land Reclamation14
A Holistic Assessment of 1979–2016 Global Cryospheric Extent14
Multi‐Region Multi‐Sector Contributions to Drivers of Air Pollution in China14
Urbanization Amplified Asymmetrical Changes of Rainfall and Exacerbated Drought: Analysis Over Five Urban Agglomerations in the Yangtze River Basin, China14
Reservoir Governance in World's Water Towers Needs to Anticipate Multi‐purpose Use14
Resilience to Large, “Catastrophic” Wildfires in North America's Grassland Biome14
Critical Role of Irrigation Efficiency for Cropland Expansion in Western China Arid Agroecosystems14
Projected Changes to Hydroclimate Seasonality in the Continental United States14
Drivers of Recent North Pacific Decadal Variability: The Role of Aerosol Forcing14
Enlarging Regional Disparities in Energy Intensity within China14
Projections of Freshwater Use in the United States Under Climate Change13
Living With Fire and the Need for Diversity13
Atmospheric Contributions to the Reversal of Surface Temperature Anomalies Between Early and Late Winter Over Eurasia13
Global Modeling of Seasonal Mortality Rates From River Floods13
Marked Impacts of Pollution Mitigation on Crop Yields in China13
Scaling Deep Decarbonization Technologies13
Different Spatiotemporal Patterns in Global Human Population and Built‐Up Land13
A Multivariate Scaling System Is Essential to Characterize the Tropical Cyclones' Risk13
Do Longer Dry Spells Associated With Warmer Years Compound the Stress on Global Water Resources?13
Linking Critical Zone With Watershed Science: The Example of the Heihe River Basin13
Projecting Climate Dependent Coastal Flood Risk With a Hybrid Statistical Dynamical Model13
New Drought Projections Over East Asia Using Evapotranspiration Deficits From the CMIP6 Warming Scenarios13
Distinguishing Direct Human‐Driven Effects on the Global Terrestrial Water Cycle13
Projected Impact of Increased Global Warming on Heat Stress and Exposed Population Over Africa13
Using a New Top‐Down Constrained Emissions Inventory to Attribute the Previously Unknown Source of Extreme Aerosol Loadings Observed Annually in the Monsoon Asia Free Troposphere13
Process‐Based Flood Risk Assessment for Germany12
Heatwaves Similar to the Unprecedented One in Summer 2021 Over Western North America Are Projected to Become More Frequent in a Warmer World12
Flash Drought: Review of Concept, Prediction and the Potential for Machine Learning, Deep Learning Methods12
The Climatic Impact‐Driver Framework for Assessment of Risk‐Relevant Climate Information12
Linear and Nonlinear Trend Analyzes in Global Satellite‐Based Precipitation, 1998–201712
Wetter California Projected by CMIP6 Models With Observational Constraints Under a High GHG Emission Scenario12
Amplification Effect of Urbanization on Atmospheric Aridity Over China Under Past Global Warming12
Causal Impacts of El Niño–Southern Oscillation on Global Soil Moisture Over the Period 2015–210012
Defining the “Ice Shed” of the Arctic Ocean's Last Ice Area and Its Future Evolution12
Impact of Quasi‐Idealized Future Land Cover Scenarios at High Latitudes in Complex Terrain12
Resilience of School Systems Following Severe Earthquakes12
Water Smart Cities Increase Irrigation to Provide Cool Refuge in a Climate Crisis12
New LiDAR‐Based Elevation Model Shows Greatest Increase in Global Coastal Exposure to Flooding to Be Caused by Early‐Stage Sea‐Level Rise12
Landslide Hazard and Exposure Modelling in Data‐Poor Regions: The Example of the Rohingya Refugee Camps in Bangladesh12
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