Professor
Fields of Interest
Education
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 2010
Biography
Research in my lab focuses on transitions, thresholds, and feedbacks of the coupled ecosystem- climate system, or the ecoclimate. Our work is global in scale, considering the interactions between terrestrial ecosystems not only on their local environment, but also on other regions connected to the local ecosystem through atmospheric circulation. These interests lead to research questions such as:
- How will changes in agricultural area in the future feedback on climate?
- What processes control the response of climate to vegetation in different regions on the globe?
- What is the role of past plant distributions on circulation and precipitation?
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Selected Research
- Effects of progressively increasing mid-latitude forest area on global energy transport, clouds, and tropical precipitation., Swann Abigail L S and Lague Marysa M, Geophysical Research Letters (9999)
- Toward accounting for ecoclimate teleconnections: intra- and inter-continental consequences of altered energy balance after vegetation change, Swann A L S, Stark S C, Breshears D D, Garcia, E. Law D J, Minor D, Saleska S R, Villegas J C, Aragão L E O C, Bella E M, Borma L S, and Cobb N S, Landscape Ecology, Volume submitted (2015)
- Hydrometeorological effects of historical land-conversion in an ecosystem-atmosphere model of Northern South America, Knox R G, Longo M, Swann A L S, Zhang K, Levine N M, Moorcroft P R, and Bras R L, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, Volume 19, Number 1, p.241–273 (2015)
- Remote Vegetation Feedbacks and the Mid-Holocene Green Sahara, Swann Abigail L S, Fung Inez Y, Chiang John C H, and Liu Yuwei, Journal of Climate, 2014/07/30, Volume 27, Number 13, p.4857–4870, American Meteorological Society (2014)
- Mid-latitude afforestation shifts general circulation and tropical precipitation, Swann Abigail L S, Fung Inez Y, and Chiang John C H, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 109, Number 3, p.712-716 (2012)
- Changes in Arctic vegetation amplify high-latitude warming through the greenhouse effect, Swann A L, Fung I Y, Levis S, Bonan G B, and Doney S C, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Volume 107, Number 4, p.1295-1300, 2101 CONSTITUTION AVE NW, WASHINGTON, DC 20418 USA, NATL ACAD SCIENCES (2010)
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Additional CoursesBIOL 315
ATMOS 350
ATMOS/ESS/OCEAN 588
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