Further details can be found on my Google Scholar page.
Reviewing and Editorial:
Reviewing and Editorial:
- My reviewing activity can be found on my Publons page.
- I am presently co-editor of Carbon Cycle Section of Current Climate Change Reports
Papers in Open Discussion & Preprints
- Gauthier, C. B., Melton, J. R., Meyer, G., S, R. D., and Sonnentag, O.: Parameter optimization for global soil carbon simulations: Not a simple problem, ESS Open Archive, https://doi.org/10.22541/essoar.172167442.20510812/v1, 2024.
- Zhang, Z., Poulter, B., Melton, J. R., Riley, W. J., Allen, G. H., Beerling, D. J., Bousquet, P., Canadell, J. G., Fluet-Chouinard, E., Ciais, P., Gedney, N., Hopcroft, P. O., Ito, A., Jackson, R. B., Jain, A. K., Jensen, K., Joos, F., Kleinen, T., Knox, S., Li, T., Li, X., Liu, X., McDonald, K., McNicol, G., Miller, P. A., Müller, J., Patra, P. K., Peng, C., Peng, S., Qin, Z., Riggs, R. M., Saunois, M., Sun, Q., Tian, H., Xu, X., Yao, Y., Yi, X., Zhang, W., Zhu, Q., Zhu, Q., and Zhuang, Q.: Ensemble estimates of global wetland methane emissions over 2000–2020, EGUsphere [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-1584, 2024.
- Saunois, M., Martinez, A., Poulter, B., Zhang, Z., Raymond, P., Regnier, P., Canadell, J. G., Jackson, R. B., Patra, P. K., Bousquet, P., Ciais, P., Dlugokencky, E. J., Lan, X., Allen, G. H., Bastviken, D., Beerling, D. J., Belikov, D. A., Blake, D. R., Castaldi, S., Crippa, M., Deemer, B. R., Dennison, F., Etiope, G., Gedney, N., Höglund-Isaksson, L., Holgerson, M. A., Hopcroft, P. O., Hugelius, G., Ito, A., Jain, A. K., Janardanan, R., Johnson, M. S., Kleinen, T., Krummel, P., Lauerwald, R., Li, T., Liu, X., McDonald, K. C., Melton, J. R., Mühle, J., Müller, J., Murguia-Flores, F., Niwa, Y., Noce, S., Pan, S., Parker, R. J., Peng, C., Ramonet, M., Riley, W. J., Rocher-Ros, G., Rosentreter, J. A., Sasakawa, M., Segers, A., Smith, S. J., Stanley, E. H., Thanwerdas, J., Tian, H., Tsuruta, A., Tubiello, F. N., Weber, T. S., van der Werf, G., Worthy, D. E., Xi, Y., Yoshida, Y., Zhang, W., Zheng, B., Zhu, Q., Zhu, Q., and Zhuang, Q.: Global Methane Budget 2000–2020, Earth Syst. Sci. Data Discuss. [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2024-115, in review, 2024.
- Umair, M., Melton, J. R., Roy, A., Eller, C. B., Baltzer, J. L., Hadiwijaya, B., Qu, B., Perron, N., and Sonnentag, O.: Implementing a plant hydraulics parameterization in the Canadian Land Surface Scheme Including biogeochemical Cycles (CLASSIC) v.1.4, Authorea Preprints, https://doi.org/10.22541/au.171386912.24878893/v1, 2024.
Peer-Reviewed Publications
2024:
2021:
2020:
- Curasi, S. R., Melton, J. R., Arora, V. K., Humphreys, E. R., and Whaley, C. H.: Global climate change below 2 °C avoids large end century increases in burned area in Canada, Npj Clim. Atmos. Sci., 7, 1–11, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-024-00781-4, 2024.
- Sitch, S., O’Sullivan, M., Robertson, E., Friedlingstein, P., Albergel, C., Anthoni, P., Arneth, A., Arora, V. K., Bastos, A., Bastrikov, V., Bellouin, N., Canadell, J. G., Chini, L., Ciais, P., Falk, S., Harris, I., Hurtt, G., Ito, A., Jain, A. K., Jones, M. W., Joos, F., Kato, E., Kennedy, D., Goldewijk, K. K., Kluzek, E., Knauer, J., Lawrence, P. J., Lombardozzi, D., Melton, J. R., Nabel, J. E. M., Pan, N., Peylin, P., Pongratz, J., Poulter, B., Rosan, T. M., Sun, Q., Tian, H., Walker, A. P., Weber, U., Yuan, W., Yue, X., and Zaehle, S.: Trends and Drivers of Terrestrial Sources and Sinks of Carbon Dioxide: An Overview of the TRENDY Project, Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 38, e2024GB008102, https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GB008102, 2024.
- Ishizawa, M., Chan, D., Worthy, D., Chan, E., Vogel, F., Melton, J. R., and Arora, V. K.: Estimation of Canada’s methane emissions: inverse modelling analysis using the ECCC measurement network, EGUsphere [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-2550, 2023. Accepted.
- Curasi, S. R., Melton, J. R., Humphreys, E. R., Hermosilla, T., and Wulder, M. A.: Implementing a dynamic representation of fire and harvest including subgrid-scale heterogeneity in the tile-based land surface model CLASSIC v1.45, Geosci. Model Dev., 17, 2683–2704, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-2683-2024, 2024.
- Seiler, C., Kou-Giesbrecht, S., Arora, V. K., & Melton, J. R.: The impact of climate forcing biases and the nitrogen cycle on land carbon balance projections. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 16, e2023MS003749. 2024. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023MS003749
- Zhang, Z., Bansal, S., Chang, K.-Y., Fluet-Chouinard, E., Delwiche, K., Goeckede, M., Gustafson, A., Knox, S., Leppänen, A., Liu, L., Liu, J., Malhotra, A., Markkanen, T., McNicol, G., Melton, J. R., Miller, P. A., Peng, C., Raivonen, M., Riley, W. J., Sonnentag, O., Aalto, T., Vargas, R., Zhang, W., Zhu, Q., Zhu, Q., Zhuang, Q., Windham-Myers, L., Jackson, R. B., and Poulter, B.: Characterizing Performance of Freshwater Wetland Methane Models Across Time Scales at FLUXNET-CH4 Sites Using Wavelet Analyses, Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 128, e2022JG007259, 2023. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022JG007259
- Pellegrini, A. F. A., Reich, P. B., Hobbie, S. E., Coetsee, C., Wigley, B., February, E., Georgiou, K., Terrer, C., Brookshire, E. N. J., Ahlström, A., Nieradzik, L., Sitch, S., Melton, J. R., Forrest, M., Li, F., Hantson, S., Burton, C., Yue, C., Ciais, P., and Jackson, R. B.: Soil carbon storage capacity of drylands under altered fire regimes, Nat. Clim. Chang., 1–6, 2023. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-023-01800-7
- McNicol, G., Fluet-Chouinard, E., Ouyang, Z., Knox, S., Zhang, Z., Aalto, T., Bansal, S., Chang, K.-Y., Chen, M., Delwiche, K., Feron, S., Goeckede, M., Liu, J., Malhotra, A., Melton, J. R., Riley, W., Vargas, R., Yuan, K., Ying, Q., Zhu, Q., Alekseychik, P., Aurela, M., Billesbach, D. P., Campbell, D. I., Chen, J., Chu, H., Desai, A. R., Euskirchen, E., Goodrich, J., Griffis, T., Helbig, M., Hirano, T., Iwata, H., Jurasinski, G., King, J., Koebsch, F., Kolka, R., Krauss, K., Lohila, A., Mammarella, I., Nilson, M., Noormets, A., Oechel, W., Peichl, M., Sachs, T., Sakabe, A., Schulze, C., Sonnentag, O., Sullivan, R. C., Tuittila, E.-S., Ueyama, M., Vesala, T., Ward, E., Wille, C., Wong, G. X., Zona, D., Windham-Myers, L., Poulter, B., and Jackson, R. B.: Upscaling wetland methane emissions from the FLUXNET‐CH4 eddy covariance network (UpCH4 v1.0): Model development, network assessment, and budget comparison, AGU Advances, 4, https://doi.org/10.1029/2023av000956, 2023.
- Qu, B., Roy, A., Melton, J. R., Andrew Black, T., Amiro, B., Euskirchen, E. S., Ueyama, M., Kobayashi, H., Schulze, C., Gosselin, G. H., Cannon, A. J., Detto, M., and Sonnentag, O.: A boreal forest model benchmarking dataset for North America: a case study with the Canadian Land Surface Scheme Including Biogeochemical Cycles (CLASSIC), Environ. Res. Lett., 18, 085002, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ace376
- Ito, A., Li, T., Qin, Z., Melton, J. R., Tian, H., Kleinen, T., Zhang, W., Zhang, Z., Joos, F., Ciais, P., Hopcroft, P. O., Beerling, D. J., Liu, X., Zhuang, Q., Zhu, Q., Peng, C., Chang, K.-Y., Fluet-Chouinard, E., McNicol, G., Patra, P., Poulter, B., Sitch, S., Riley, W., and Zhu, Q.: Cold-Season Methane Fluxes Simulated by GCP-CH4 Models, Geophys. Res. Lett., 50, e2023GL103037, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL103037
- Chang, K.-Y., Riley, W. J., Collier, N., McNicol, G., Fluet-Chouinard, E., Knox, S. H., Delwiche, K. B., Jackson, R. B., Poulter, B., Saunois, M., Chandra, N., Gedney, N., Ishizawa, M., Ito, A., Joos, F., Kleinen, T., Maggi, F., McNorton, J., Melton, J. R., Miller, P., Niwa, Y., Pasut, C., Patra, P. K., Peng, C., Peng, S., Segers, A., Tian, H., Tsuruta, A., Yao, Y., Yin, Y., Zhang, W., Zhang, Z., Zhu, Q., Zhu, Q., and Zhuang, Q.: Observational constraints reduce model spread but not uncertainty in global wetland methane emission estimates, Glob. Chang. Biol., https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16755, 2023.
- Associated commentary: Yazbeck, T. and Bohrer, G.: Uncertainties in wetland methane-flux estimates, Glob. Chang. Biol., https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16754, 2023.
- Curasi, S. R., Melton, J. R., Humphreys, E. R., Wang, L., Seiler, C., Cannon, A. J., Chan, E., and Qu, B.: Evaluating the performance of the Canadian land surface scheme including biogeochemical cycles (CLASSIC) tailored to the pan‐Canadian domain, J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst., 15, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022ms003480, 2023.
- Fluet-Chouinard, E., Stocker, B. D., Zhang, Z., Malhotra, A., Melton, J. R., Poulter, B., Kaplan, J. O., Goldewijk, K. K., Siebert, S., Minayeva, T., Hugelius, G., Joosten, H., Barthelmes, A., Prigent, C., Aires, F., Hoyt, A. M., Davidson, N., Finlayson, C. M., Lehner, B., Jackson, R. B., and McIntyre, P. B.: Extensive global wetland loss over the past three centuries, Nature, 614, 281–286, 2023. https://rdcu.be/c5brO
- O’Sullivan, M., Friedlingstein, P., Sitch, S., Anthoni, P., Arneth, A., Arora, V. K., Bastrikov, V., Delire, C., Goll, D. S., Jain, A., Kato, E., Kennedy, D., Knauer, J., Lienert, S., Lombardozzi, D., McGuire, P. C., Melton, J. R., Nabel, J. E. M. S., Pongratz, J., Poulter, B., Séférian, R., Tian, H., Vuichard, N., Walker, A. P., Yuan, W., Yue, X., and Zaehle, S.: Process-oriented analysis of dominant sources of uncertainty in the land carbon sink, Nat. Commun., 13, 1–10, 2022. https://rdcu.be/cTGDc
- MacKay, M. D., Meyer, G., and Melton, J. R.: On the Discretization of Richards Equation in Canadian Land Surface Models, Atmosphere-Ocean, 1–11, https://doi.org/10.1080/07055900.2022.2096558, 2022.
- Melton, J. R., Chan, E., Millard, K., Fortier, M., Winton, R. S., Martín-López, J. M., Cadillo-Quiroz, H., Kidd, D., and Verchot, L. V.: A map of global peatland extent created using machine learning (Peat-ML), Geosci. Model Dev., 15, 4709–4738, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-4709-2022, 2022.
- Zenodo repository of Peat-ML dataset: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5794335
- Seiler, C., Melton, J. R., Arora, V. K., Sitch, S., Friedlingstein, P., Anthoni, P., Goll, D., Jain, A. K., Joetzjer, E., Lienert, S., Lombardozzi, D., Luyssaert, S., Nabel, J. E. M. S., Tian, H., Vuichard, N., Walker, A. P., Yuan, W., and Zaehle, S.: Are terrestrial biosphere models fit for simulating the global land carbon sink?, J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst., 14, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021ms002946, 2022.
- Friedlingstein, P., Jones, M. W., O'Sullivan, M., Andrew, R. M., Bakker, D. C. E., Hauck, J., Le Quéré, C., Peters, G. P., Peters, W., Pongratz, J., Sitch, S., Canadell, J. G., Ciais, P., Jackson, R. B., Alin, S. R., Anthoni, P., Bates, N. R., Becker, M., Bellouin, N., Bopp, L., Chau, T. T. T., Chevallier, F., Chini, L. P., Cronin, M., Currie, K. I., Decharme, B., Djeutchouang, L. M., Dou, X., Evans, W., Feely, R. A., Feng, L., Gasser, T., Gilfillan, D., Gkritzalis, T., Grassi, G., Gregor, L., Gruber, N., Gürses, Ö., Harris, I., Houghton, R. A., Hurtt, G. C., Iida, Y., Ilyina, T., Luijkx, I. T., Jain, A., Jones, S. D., Kato, E., Kennedy, D., Klein Goldewijk, K., Knauer, J., Korsbakken, J. I., Körtzinger, A., Landschützer, P., Lauvset, S. K., Lefèvre, N., Lienert, S., Liu, J., Marland, G., McGuire, P. C., Melton, J. R., Munro, D. R., Nabel, J. E. M. S., Nakaoka, S.-I., Niwa, Y., Ono, T., Pierrot, D., Poulter, B., Rehder, G., Resplandy, L., Robertson, E., Rödenbeck, C., Rosan, T. M., Schwinger, J., Schwingshackl, C., Séférian, R., Sutton, A. J., Sweeney, C., Tanhua, T., Tans, P. P., Tian, H., Tilbrook, B., Tubiello, F., van der Werf, G. R., Vuichard, N., Wada, C., Wanninkhof, R., Watson, A. J., Willis, D., Wiltshire, A. J., Yuan, W., Yue, C., Yue, X., Zaehle, S., and Zeng, J.: Global Carbon Budget 2021, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 14, 1917–2005, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-1917-2022, 2022.
2021:
- Stavert, A. R. Canadell, J. P., Saunois, M., Bousquet, P., Poulter, B., Jackson, R. B., Raymond, P.A., Regnier, P., Lauerwald, R., Patra, P. K., Allen G. H., Bergamaschi, P., Ciais, P. Chandra, N.,Ishizawa, M., Ito, A., Kleinen, T.,Maksyutov, S., McNorton, J., Gustafson, A., Melton, J. R., Müller, J., Niwa, Y., Peng, S., Riley, W. J., Segers, A., Tian, H., Tsuruta, A., Yin, Y., Zhang, Z., Zheng, B., and Zhuang, Q. 2021: Regional trends and drivers of the 2000-2017 global methane budget, Glob. Chang. Biol., GCB15901, https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15901, 2021. [Link]
- Teckentrup, L., De Kauwe, M. G., Pitman, A. J., Goll, D., Haverd, V., Jain, A. K., Joetzjer, E., Kato, E., Lienert, S., Lombardozzi, D., McGuire, P. C., Melton, J. R., Nabel, J. E. M. S., Pongratz, J., Sitch, S., Walker, A. P., and Zaehle, S.: Assessing the representation of the Australian carbon cycle in global vegetation models, Biogeosciences, 18, 5639–5668, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-5639-2021, 2021. [Link]
- Nzotungicimpaye, C.-M., Zickfeld, K., MacDougall, A. H., Melton, J. R., Treat, C. C., Eby, M., and Lesack, L. F. W.: WETMETH 1.0: A new wetland methane model for implementation in Earth system models, Geosci. Model Dev.., 14, 6215–6240, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-6215-2021, 2021. [Link]
- Knox, S. H., Bansal, S., McNicol, G., Schafer, K., Sturtevant, C., Ueyama, M., Valach, A. C., Baldocchi, D., Delwiche, K., Desai, A. R., Euskirchen, E., Liu, J., Lohila, A., Malhotra, A., Melling, L., Riley, W., Runkle, B. R. K., Turner, J., Vargas, R., Zhu, Q., Alto, T., Fluet-Chouinard, E., Goeckede, M., Melton, J. R., Sonnentag, O., Vesala, T., Ward, E., Zhang, Z., Feron, S., Ouyang, Z., Alekseychik, P., Aurela, M., Bohrer, G., Campbell, D. I., Chen, J., Chu, H., Dalmagro, H. J., Goodrich, J. P., Gottschalk, P., Hirano, T., Iwata, H., Jurasinski, G., Kang, M., Koebsch, F., Mammarella, I., Nilsson, M. B., Ono, K., Peichl, M., Peltola, O., Ryu, Y., Sachs, T., Sakabe, A., Sparks, J., Tuittila, E.-S., Vourlitis, G. L., Wong, G. X., Windham-Myers, L., Poulter, B., and Jackson, R. B.: Identifying dominant environmental predictors of freshwater wetland methane fluxes across diurnal to seasonal time scales, Glob. Chang. Biol., https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15661, 2021.[Link]
- Blyth, E. M., Arora, V. K., Clark, D. B., Dadson, S. J., De Kauwe, M. G., Lawrence, D. M., Melton, J. R., Pongratz, J., Turton, R. H., Yoshimura, K., and Yuan, H.: Advances in Land Surface Modelling, Current Clim. Chg. Reports, 7, 45–71, https://doi.org/10.1007/s40641-021-00171-5, 2021. [Link]
- Chen, Z., Huntzinger, D. N., Liu, J., Piao, S., Wang, X., Sitch, S., Friedlingstein, P., Anthoni, P., Arneth, A., Bastrikov, V., Goll, D. S., Haverd, V., Jain, A. K., Joetzjer, E., Kato, E., Lienert, S., Lombardozzi, D. L., McGuire, P. C., Melton, J. R., Nabel, J. E. M., Pongratz, J., Poulter, B., Tian, H., Wiltshire, A. J., Zaehle, S., and Miller, S. M.: Five years of variability in the global carbon cycle: comparing an estimate from the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 and process-based models, Environ. Res. Lett., https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abfac1, 2021.[Link]
- Obermeier, W. A., Nabel, J. E. M. S., Loughran, T., Hartung, K., Bastos, A., Havermann, F., Anthoni, P., Arneth, A., Goll, D. S., Lienert, S., Lombardozzi, D., Luyssaert, S., McGuire, P. C., Melton, J. R., Poulter, B., Sitch, S., Sullivan, M. O., Tian, H., Walker, A. P., Wiltshire, A. J., Zaehle, S., and Pongratz, J.: Modelled land use and land cover change emissions – A spatio-temporal comparison of different approaches, Earth Syst. Dynam.12, 635–670, https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-12-635-2021, 2021.[Link]
- Meyer, G., Humphreys, E. R., Melton, J. R., Cannon, A. J., and Lafleur, P. M.: Simulating shrubs and their energy and carbon dioxide fluxes in Canada's Low Arctic with the Canadian Land Surface Scheme Including biogeochemical Cycles (CLASSIC), Biogeosciences, 18, 3263–3283, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-3263-2021, 2021. [Link]
- Chen, Z., Liu, J. Henze, D. K., Huntzinger, D. N., Wells, K. C., Sitch, S., Friedlingstein, P., Joetzjer, E., Bastrikov, V., Goll, D. S., Haverd, V., Jain, A. K., Kato, E., Lienert, S., Lombardozzi, D. L., McGuire, P. C., Melton, J. R., Nabel, J. E. M. S., Poulter, B., Tian, H., Wiltshire, A. J., Zaehle, S., and Miller, S. M.: Linking global terrestrial CO2 fluxes and environmental drivers: inferences from the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 and terrestrial biospheric models, Atm. Chem. Phys. 21, 6663–6680, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-6663-2021, 2021. [Link]
- Seiler, C., Melton, J. R., Arora, V. K., and Wang, L.: CLASSIC v1.0: the open-source community successor to the Canadian Land Surface Scheme (CLASS) and the Canadian Terrestrial Ecosystem Model (CTEM) – Part 2: Global Benchmarking, Geosci. Model Dev.,14, 2371–2417, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-2371-2021, 2021. [Link]
2020:
- Hantson, S., Kelley, D. I., Arneth, A., Harrison, S. P., Archibald, S., Bachelet, D., Forrest, M., Hickler, T., Lasslop, G., Li, F., Mangeon, S., Melton, J. R., Nieradzik, L., Rabin, S. S., Prentice, I. C., Sheehan, T., Sitch, S., Teckentrup, L., Voulgarakis, A., and Yue, C.: Quantitative assessment of fire and vegetation properties in historical simulations with fire-enabled vegetation models from the Fire Model Intercomparison Project, Geosci. Model Dev., 13, 3299–3318, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-3299-2020, 2020 [Link]
- Saunois, M., Stavert, A. R., Poulter, B., Bousquet, P., Canadell, J. G., Jackson, R. B., Raymond, P. A., Dlugokencky, E. J., Houweling, S., Patra, P. K., Ciais, P., Arora, V. K., Bastviken, D., Bergamaschi, P., Blake, D. R., Brailsford, G., Bruhwiler, L., Carlson, K. M., Carrol, M., Castaldi, S., Chandra, N., Crevoisier, C., Crill, P. M., Covey, K., Curry, C. L., Etiope, G., Frankenberg, C., Gedney, N., Hegglin, M. I., Höglund-Isaksson, L., Hugelius, G., Ishizawa, M., Ito, A., Janssens-Maenhout, G., Jensen, K. M., Joos, F., Kleinen, T., Krummel, P. B., Langenfelds, R. L., Laruelle, G. G., Liu, L., Machida, T., Maksyutov, S., McDonald, K. C., McNorton, J., Miller, P. A., Melton, J. R., Morino, I., Müller, J., Murguia-Flores, F., Naik, V., Niwa, Y., Noce, S., O'Doherty, S., Parker, R. J., Peng, C., Peng, S., Peters, G. P., Prigent, C., Prinn, R., Ramonet, M., Regnier, P., Riley, W. J., Rosentreter, J. A., Segers, A., Simpson, I. J., Shi, H., Smith, S. J., Steele, L. P., Thornton, B. F., Tian, H., Tohjima, Y., Tubiello, F. N., Tsuruta, A., Viovy, N., Voulgarakis, A., Weber, T. S., van Weele, M., van der Werf, G. R., Weiss, R. F., Worthy, D., Wunch, D., Yin, Y., Yoshida, Y., Zhang, W., Zhang, Z., Zhao, Y., Zheng, B., Zhu, Q., Zhu, Q., and Zhuang, Q.: The Global Methane Budget 2000–2017, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 12, 1561–1623, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-1561-2020, 2020. [Link]
- Melton, J. R., Arora, V. K., Wisernig-Cojoc, E., Seiler, C., Fortier, M., Chan, E., and Teckentrup, L.: CLASSIC v1.0: the open-source community successor to the Canadian Land Surface Scheme (CLASS) and the Canadian Terrestrial Ecosystem Model (CTEM) – Part 1: Model framework and site-level performance, Geosci. Model Dev., 13, 2825–2850, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-2825-2020, 2020. [Link]
- Lasslop, G., Hantson, S., Harrison, S. P., Bachelet, D., Burton, C., Forkel, M., Forrest, M., Li, F., Melton, J. R., Yue, C., Archibald, S., Scheiter, S., Arneth, A., Hickler, T. and Sitch, S.: Global ecosystems and fire: multi-model assessment of fire-induced tree cover and carbon storage reduction, Glob. Chang. Biol., doi:10.1111/gcb.15160, 2020. [Link]
- Helbig, M., Waddington, J. M., Alekseychik, P., Amiro, B. D., Aurela, M., Barr, A. G., Black, T. A., Blanken, P. D., Carey, S. K., Chen, J., Chi, J., Desai, A. R., Dunn, A., Euskirchen, E. S., Flanagan, L. B., Forbrich, I., Friborg, T., Grelle, A., Harder, S., Heliasz, M., Humphreys, E. R., Ikawa, H., Isabelle, P.-E., Iwata, H., Jassal, R., Korkiakoski, M., Kurbatova, J., Kutzbach, L., Lindroth, A., Löfvenius, M. O., Lohila, A., Mammarella, I., Marsh, P., Maximov, T., Melton, J. R., Moore, P. A., Nadeau, D. F., Nicholls, E. M., Nilsson, M. B., Ohta, T., Peichl, M., Petrone, R. M., Petrov, R., Prokushkin, A., Quinton, W. L., Reed, D. E., Roulet, N. T., Runkle, B. R. K., Sonnentag, O., Strachan, I. B., Taillardat, P., Tuittila, E.-S., Tuovinen, J.-P., Turner, J., Ueyama, M., Varlagin, A., Wilmking, M., Wofsy, S. C. and Zyrianov, V.: Increasing contribution of peatlands to boreal evapotranspiration in a warming climate, Nat. Clim. Chang., doi:10.1038/s41558-020-0763-7, 2020. [Link]
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- Melton, J. R., Verseghy, D. L., Sospedra-Alfonso, R., and Gruber, S.: Improving permafrost physics in the coupled Canadian Land Surface Scheme (v. 3.6.2) and Canadian Terrestrial Ecosystem Model (v. 2.1) (CLASS-CTEM), Geosci. Model Dev., 12, 4443–4467, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-4443-2019, 2019. [Link]
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- Asaadi, A., Arora, V. K., Melton, J. R., and Bartlett, P.: An improved parameterization of leaf area index (LAI) seasonality in the Canadian Land Surface Scheme (CLASS) and Canadian Terrestrial Ecosystem Model (CTEM) modelling framework, Biogeosciences, 15, 6885-6907, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-6885-2018, 2018. [Link]
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- Arora, V. K., J. R. Melton, and Plummer, D. 2018. An assessment of natural methane fluxes simulated by the CLASS-CTEM model, Biogeosciences, 15, 4683-4709, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-4683-2018. [Link]
- Arora, V. K. and J R. Melton. 2018. Reduction in global area burned and wildfire emissions since 1930s enhances carbon uptake by land, Nat. Commun., 9(1), 1326. doi:10.1038/s41467-018-03838-0 [Link]
- Badawy, B., Polavarapu, S., Jones, D. B. A., Deng, F., Neish, M., J. R. Melton, Nassar, R. and Arora, V. K. 2018. Coupling the Canadian Terrestrial Ecosystem Model (CTEM v. 2.0) to Environment and Climate Change Canada’s greenhouse gas forecast model (v.107-glb), Geoscientific Model Development, 11(2), 631–663 [Link]
- Shrestha, R. K., Arora, V. K., J. R. Melton, 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, 14, 4733-4753, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-4733-2017 [Link]
- Poulter, B., Bousquet, P., Canadell, J. G., Ciais, P., Peregon, A., Saunois, M., Arora, V. K., Beerling, D. J., Brovkin, V., Jones, C. D., Joos, F., Gedney, N., Ito, A., Kleinen, T., Koven, C. D., McDonald, K., J. R. Melton, Peng, C., Peng, S., Prigent, C., Schroeder, R., Riley, W. J., Saito, M., Spahni, R., Tian, H., Taylor, L., Viovy, N., Wilton, D., Wiltshire, A., Xu, X., Zhang, B., Zhang, Z. and Zhu, Q. 2017. Global wetland contribution to 2000-2012 atmospheric methane growth rate dynamics, Environ. Res. Lett., 12(9), 094013 [Link]
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- Melton, J. R., Sospedra-Alfonso, R., and McCusker, K. E. 2017. Tiling soil textures for terrestrial ecosystem modelling via clustering analysis: a case study with CLASS-CTEM (version 2.1), Geosci. Model Dev., doi:10.5194/gmd-2017-3 [Link]
- Saunois, M., Bousquet, P., Poulter, B., Peregon, A., Ciais, P., Canadell, J. G., Dlugokencky, E. J., Etiope, G., Bastviken, D., Houweling, S., Janssens-Maenhout, G., Tubiello, F. N., Castaldi, S., Jackson, R. B., Alexe, M., Arora, V. K., Beerling, D. J., Bergamaschi, P., Blake, D. R., Brailsford, G., Bruhwiler, L., Crevoisier, C., Crill, P., Covey, K., Frankenberg, C., Gedney, N., Höglund-Isaksson, L., Ishizawa, M., Ito, A., Joos, F., Kim, H.-S., Kleinen, T., Krummel, P., Lamarque, J.-F., Langenfelds, R., Locatelli, R., Machida, T., Maksyutov, S., J. R. Melton, Morino, I., Naik, V., O'Doherty, S., Parmentier, F.-J. W., Patra, P. K., Peng, C., Peng, S., Peters, G. P., Pison, I., Prinn, R., Ramonet, M., Riley, W. J., Saito, M., Santini, M., Schroeder, R., Simpson, I. J., Spahni, R., Takizawa, A., Thornton, B. F., Tian, H., Tohjima, Y., Viovy, N., Voulgarakis, A., Weiss, R., Wilton, D. J., Wiltshire, A., Worthy, D., Wunch, D., Xu, X., Yoshida, Y., Zhang, B., Zhang, Z., and Zhu, Q. 2017. Variability and quasi-decadal changes in the methane budget over the period 2000–2012, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 17, 11135-11161, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-11135-2017 [Link]
- Melton, J. R. 2017. Wetland Biogeography. The International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology. Wiley and the American Association of Geographers. 1–4. doi: 10.1002/9781118786352.wbieg0689 [PDF]
- Rabin, S., J. R. Melton, G. Lasslop, D. Bachelet, M. Forrest, S. Hantson, F. Li, S. Mangeon, C. Yue, V. K. Arora, T. Hickler, S. Kloster, W. Knorr, L. Nieradzik, A. Spessa, G. A. Folberth, T. Sheehan, A. Voulgarakis, I. C. Prentice, S. Sitch, J. O. Kaplan, S. Harrison, and A. Arneth. 2017. The Fire Modeling Intercomparison Project (FireMIP), phase 1: Experimental and analytical protocols. Geosci. Model Dev., 10, 1175-1197, doi:10.5194/gmd-10-1175-2017. [Link]
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- Miller, S. M., C. E. Miller, R. Commane, R. Y.-W. Chang, S. J. Dinardo, J. M. Henderson, A. Karion, J. Lindaas, J. R. Melton, J. B. Miller, C. Sweeney, S. C. Wofsy, and A. M. Michalak. 2016. A multi-year estimate of methane fluxes in Alaska from CARVE atmospheric observations, Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 2016GB005419, doi:10.1002/2016GB005419 [PDF]
- Wu, Y., D. L. Verseghy, and J. R. Melton. 2016. Integrating peatlands into the coupled Canadian Land Surface Scheme (CLASS) v3.6 and the Canadian Terrestrial Ecosystem Model (CTEM) v2.0. Geosci. Model Dev. 9, 2639-2663, doi:10.5194/gmd-9-2639-2016 [Link]
- Hantson, S., A. Arneth, S. P. Harrison, D. I. Kelley, I. C. Prentice, S. S. Rabin, S. Archibald, F. Mouillot, S. R. Arnold, P. Artaxo, D. Bachelet, P. Ciais, M. Forrest, P. Friedlingstein, T. Hickler, J. O. Kaplan, S. Kloster, W. Knorr, G. Lasslop, F. Li, S. Mangeon, J. R. Melton, A. Meyn, S. Sitch, A. Spessa, G. R. van der Werf, A. Voulgarakis, and C. Yue. 2016. The status and challenge of global fire modelling. Biogeosciences, 13, 3359–3375, doi:10.5194/bg-13-3359-2016. [Link]
- Miller, S. M., R. Commane, J. R. Melton, A. E. Andrews, J. Benmergui, E. J. Dlugokencky, G. Janssens-Maenhout, A. M. Michalak, C. Sweeney, and D. E. J. Worthy. 2016. Evaluation of wetland methane emissions across North America using atmospheric data and inverse modeling. Biogeosciences, 13, 1329-1339, doi:10.5194/bg-13-1329-2016. [Link]
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- Shrestha, R. K., V. K. Arora, and J. R. Melton. 2016. The sensitivity of simulated competition between different plant functional types to sub-grid-scale representation of vegetation in a land surface model, J. Geophys. Res. Biogeosci., 2015JG003234, doi:10.1002/2015JG003234. [PDF]
- Badawy, B., V. K. Arora, J. R. Melton, and R. Nassar. 2016. Modelling the diurnal variability of respiratory fluxes in the Canadian Terrestrial Ecosystem Model (CTEM). Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems (JAMES), doi:10.1002/2015MS000540. [Link]
- Sospedra-Alfonso, R., J. R. Melton, and W. J. Merryfield. 2015. Effects of temperature and precipitation on snowpack variability in the Central Rocky Mountains as a function of elevation, Geophys. Res. Lett., 42(11), 2015GL063898, 2015. [PDF]
- Bohn, T. J., J. R. Melton, A. Ito, T. Kleinen, R. Spahni, B. D. Stocker, B. Zhang, X. Zhu, R. Schroeder, M. V. Glagolev, S. Maksyutov, V. Brovkin, G. Chen, S. N. Denisov, A. V. Eliseev, A. Gallego-Sala, K. C. McDonald, M. A. Rawlins, W. J. Riley, Z. M. Subin, H. Tian, Q. Zhuang, and J. O. Kaplan. 2015. WETCHIMP-WSL: intercomparison of wetland methane emissions models over West Siberia. Biogeosciences 12, 3321-3349. doi:10.5194/bg-12-3321-2015 [Link]
- Melton, J. R., R. K. Shrestha, and V. K. Arora. 2015. The influence of soils on heterotrophic respiration exerts a strong control on net ecosystem productivity in seasonally dry Amazonian forests. Biogeosciences. 12: 1151-1168. doi:10.5194/bg-12-1151-2015 [PDF]
- Bruhwiler, L., P. Bousquet, S. Houweling, and J. R. Melton. 2015. Modeling of atmospheric methane using inverse (and forward) approaches. Chapter 7 in AMAP Assessment 2015: Methane as an Arctic climate forcer. Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP), Oslo, Norway. vii + 139 pp. [Link]
- Melton, J. R. and V. K. Arora. 2014. Sub-grid scale representation of vegetation in global land surface schemes: implications for estimation of the terrestrial carbon sink. Biogeosciences. 11: 1021 – 1036. doi:10.5194/bg-11-1021-2014. [PDF]
- Fisher, J. B., M. Sikka, W. C. Oechel, D. N. Huntzinger, J. R. Melton, C. D. Koven, A. Ahlström, A. M. Arain, I. Baker, J. M. Chen, P. Ciais, C. Davidson, M.l Dietze, B. El-Masri, D. Hayes, C. Huntingford, A. Jain, P. E. Levy, M. R. Lomas, B. Poulter, D. Price, A. K. Sahoo, K. Schaefer, H. Tian, E. Tomelleri, H. Verbeeck, N. Viovy, R. Wania, N. Zeng, and C. E. Miller. 2014. Carbon cycle uncertainty in the Alaskan Arctic. Biogeosciences. 11: 4271–4288. doi: 10.5194/bg-11-4271-2014. [PDF]
- Seiler, C., R. W. A. Hutjes, B. Kruijt, J. P. Quispe, S. Añez, V. K. Arora, J. R. Melton, T. Hickler, and P. Kabat. 2014. Modeling forest dynamics along climate gradients in Bolivia. Journal of Geophysical Research- Biogeosciences. 119: 758 – 775. doi: 10.1002/2013JG002509. [Link]
- Melton, J. R., R. Wania, E. L. Hodson, B. Poulter, B. Ringeval, R. Spahni, T. Bohn, C. A. Avis, D. J. Beerling, G. Chen, A. V. Eliseev, S. N. Denisov, P. O. Hopcroft, D. P. Lettenmaier, W. J. Riley, J. S. Singarayer, Z. M. Subin, H. Tian, S. Zürcher, V. Brovkin, P. M. van Bodegom, T. Kleinen, Z. C. Yu, and J. O. Kaplan. 2013. Present state of global wetland extent and wetland methane modelling: conclusions from a model intercomparison project (WETCHIMP). Biogeosciences. 10: 753 – 788. doi: 10.5194/bg-10-753-2013. [PDF]
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- Wania, R., J. R. Melton, E. L. Hodson, B. Poulter, B. Ringeval, R. Spahni, T. Bohn, C. A. Avis, G. Chen, A. V. Eliseev, P. O. Hopcroft, W. J. Riley, Z. M. Subin, H. Tian, P. M. van Bodegom, T. Kleinen, Z. C. Yu, J. S. Singarayer, S. Zürcher, D. P. Lettenmaier, D. J. Beerling, S. N. Denisov, C. Prigent, F. Papa, and J. O. Kaplan. 2013. Present state of global wetland extent and wetland methane modelling: methodology of a model intercomparison project (WETCHIMP). Geoscientific Model Development. 5: 1 – 65. doi: 10.5194/gmdd-5-1-2012. [PDF]
- Contributing author to the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Chapter 6: Carbon and Other Biogeochemical Cycles. 2013. [PDF]
- Melton, J. R., H. Schaefer, and M. J. Whiticar. 2012. Enrichment in 13C of atmospheric CH4 during the Younger Dryas termination. Climate of the Past. 6: 617 – 641. doi: 10.5194/cp-8-1177-2012. [PDF]
- Melton, J. R., M. J. Whiticar, and P. Eby. 2011. Stable carbon isotope ratio analyses on trace methane from ice samples. Chemical Geology. 288 : 88 – 96. doi: 10.1016/ j.chemgeo.2011.03.003. [Link]
- Melton, J. R., J. O. Kaplan, and D. Robinson. 2011. Climate change projections for the Northwest Skeena, in Climate Change Adaptation Planning for Northwest Skeena Communities, Chapter 5. [PDF]
- Melton, J. R., J. O. Kaplan, and D. Robinson. 2011. Vegetation modelling, harvest scenarios, and projected impacts on the landscape, in Climate Change Adaptation Planning for Northwest Skeena Communities, Chapter 6. [PDF]. Appendices [PDF]
- Schaefer, H., V. V. Petrenko, E. J. Brook, J. P. Severinghaus, N. Reeh, J. R. Melton, and L. Mitchell. 2009. Ice stratigraphy at the Pakitsoq ice margin, West Greenland, derived from gas records. Journal of Glaciology. 55 : 411 – 421. doi: 10.3189/002214309788816704. [Link]
- Melton, J. R., A. Kantzas, and C. H. Langford. 2007. Nuclear magnetic resonance relaxometry as a spectroscopic probe of the coordination sphere of a paramagnetic metal bound to a humic acid mixture. Analytica Chimica Acta. 605 : 46 – 52. doi: 10.1016/j.aca.2007.10.017 [Link]
- Langford, C. H., and J. R. Melton. 2005. When should humics be regarded as dynamic combinatorial systems? in Humic substances: molecular details and applications in land and water conservation, Chapter 5. Taylor and Francis. [Link]