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Yi C., Ricciuto D., Li R., Wolbeck J., Xu X., Nilsson M., Aires L., Albertson J.D., Ammann C., Arain M.A., et al., (2010). Climate control of terrestrial carbon exchange across biomes and continents. Environmental Research Letters, 5: 034007, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/5/3/034007.

Schwalm, C. R., Williams C.A., Schaefer K., Anderson R., Arain M.A., Baker I., Barr A., Black T.A., Chen G., Chen J.M., Ciais P., Davis K.J., Desai A., Dietze M., Dragoni D., Fischer M.L., Flanagan L.B., Grant R., Gu L., Hollinger D., Izaurralde R.C., Kucharik C., Lafleur P., Law B.E., Li L., Li Z., Liu S., Lokupitiya E., Luo Y., Ma S., Margolis H., McCaughey H., Monson R.K., Oechel W.C., Peng C., Poulter B.,  Price D.T., Riciutto D.M., Riley W., Sahoo A.K., Sprintsin M., Sun J., Tian H., Tonitto C., Verbeeck H., Verma S.B., (2010), A model-data intercomparison of CO2 exchange across North America: Results from the North American Carbon Program site synthesis, Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences, 115, G00H05, doi:10.1029/2009JG001229

Beer C., Reichstein M., Tomelleri E., Ciais P., Jung M., Carvalhais N., Rodenbeck C., Arain M.A., Baldocchi D., Bonan G.B., Bondeau A., Cescatti A., Lasslop G., Lindroth L., Lomas M., Luyssaert S., Margolis H., Oleson K.W., Roupsard O., Veenendaal E., Viovy N., Williams C., Woodward F.I., Papale D., 2010. Terrestrial gross carbon dioxide uptake: Global distribution and co-variation with climate. Science, DOI: 10.1126/science.1184984.

Mahecha M.D., Reichstein M., Carvalhais N., Lasslop G., Lange H., Seneviratne S.I., Vargas R., Ammann C., Arain M.A., Cescatti A.,  Janssens I.A., Migliavacca M., Montagnani L., Richardson A.D., 2010. Global convergence in the temperature sensitivity of respiration at ecosystem level. Science, DOI: 10.1126/science.1189587

Khomik M., Arain M.A., Brodeur J.J., Peichl M., Restrepo-Coupé N., McLaren J.D., 2010. Relative contribution of soil, foliar and woody tissue respiration to total ecosystem respiration in four pine forests of different ages. Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences115, G03024, doi:10.1029/2009JG001089.

Peichl M., Brodeur J.J., Khomik M., Arain M.A., 2010a. Biometric and eddy-covariance based estimates of carbon fluxes in an age-sequence of temperate pine forests. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology,150:952-965,doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2010.03.002

Peichl M., Arain M.A., Brodeur J.J., 2010b. Age effects and climatic controls on carbon fluxes in pine forests. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 150: 1090–1101, doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2010.04.008.  

Migliavacca M., Reichstein M., Richardson A.D., Colombo R., Sutton M.A., Lasslop G.,  Wohlfahrt G., Tomelleri E., Carvalhais N., Cescatti A., Mahecha M.D., Montagnani L., Papale D., Zaehle S., Arain M.A., Arneth A., Black T.A., Carrara A., Dore S., Gianelle D., Helfter C., Hollinger D., Kutsch W.L., Lafleur P.M., Nouvellon Y., Rebmann C., da Rocha H.R., Rodeghiero M., Roupsard O., Sebastià M.T., Seufert G., Soussana J.F., van der Molen M.K., 2010. Semi-empirical modeling of abiotic and biotic factors controlling ecosystem respiration across eddy covariance sites. Global Change Biology doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02243.x.

Binod N., Jerrett M., Burnett R.T., Marrie T., Arain M.A., and Loeb M., 2010. Long-term exposure to ambient air pollution and risk of hospitalization with community-acquired pneumonia in older adults. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 181: 47–53. doi: 10.1164/rccm.200901-0160oc.

Peichl M., Arain M.A., Ullah S., Moore T., 2009. Carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide exchanges in an age-sequence of temperate pine forests. Global Change Biology. Published online on September 10, 2009 as doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.02066.x.

Arain M.A., Balir R., Finkelstein N., Brook J. and Jerrett M., 2009. Meteorological Influences on the Spatial and Temporal Variability of NO2 in Toronto and Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Canadian Geographer, 53:2, 165-190.

Khomik, M., M. A. Arain, K. Liaw, and J. H. McCaughey, 2009. Debut of a flexible model for simulating soil respiration–soil temperature relationship: Gamma model, J. Geophys. Res., 114, G03004, doi:10.1029/2008JG000851.

Sahsuvaroglu T., Jerrett M., Sears M.R., McConnell R., Finkelstein N., Arain M.A.., Newbold B., Burnett R., 2009. Spatial analysis of air pollution and childhood asthma in Hamilton, Canada: comparing exposure methods in sensitive subgroups. Environmental Health 2009, 8:14 doi:10.1186/1476-069X-8-14.

Jerrett M., Finkelstein M.M., Brook J.R., Arain M.A., Kanaroglou P., Stieb D.M., Gilbert N.L., Verma D., Finkelstein N., Chapman K.R., Sears M.R., 2009. A Cohort Study of Traffic-related Air Pollution and Mortality in Toronto, Canada. Environmental Health Perspective. doi:10.1289/ehp.11533.

McLaren, J. D., M. A. Arain, M. Khomik, M. Peichl, and J. Brodeur (2008), Water flux components and soil water-atmospheric controls in a temperate pine forest growing in a well-drained sandy soil, J. Geophys. Res., 113, G04031, doi:10.1029/2007JG000653.

Yuan F., Arain M.A., Barr A., Black T.A., Bourque P.-A., Coursolle C., Margolis H., McCaughey H., and Wofsy S. C., 2008. Modeling analysis of primary controls on net ecosystem productivity of seven boreal and temperate coniferous forests across an east-west continental transect in Canada. Global Change Biology (2008) 14, 1–20, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2008.01612.x.

Beckerman B., Jerrett M., Brook J. Verma D., Arain M. A., Finkelstein M., 2008. Correlation of nitrogen dioxide to other traffic pollutants near a major expressway. Atmospheric Environment, 42 (2008) 275–290. doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2007.09.042.

Peichl, M., Moore, T., Arain, M.A., Dalva, M., Brodkey, D., and J. McLaren, 2007. Concentrations and Fluxes of Dissolved Organic Carbon in an Age-sequence of White Pine Plantation Forests in Southern Ontario, Canada. Biogeochemistry (in press).

Peichl M., and Arain M.A., 2007. Allometry and partitioning of above- and belowground tree biomass in an age-sequence of white pine forests. Forest Ecology and Management (in press).

Yi S., Woo M.K. and Arain M.A., 2007. Impact of peat and vegetation on permafrost degradation under climate warming. Geophysical Research Letters 34, L16504, doi:10.1029/2007GL030550.

Arain M.A., Blair R., Finkelstein N., Brook J.R., Sahsuvaroglu T., Beckerman B., Zhang L., and Jerrett M., 2007. The use of wind fields to improve empirical chronic air pollution exposure models. Atmospheric Environment, 41:3453–3464.

Owen K.E, J. Tenhunen, M. Reichstein, Q. Wang, E. Falge, R. Geyer, X. Xiao, P. Stoy, C. Ammann, M.A. Arain, M. Aubinet, M. Aurela, C. Bernhofer, B. Chojnicki, A. Granier, T. Gruenwald, J. Hadley, B. Heinesch, D. Hollinger, A. Knohl, W. Kutsch, A. Lohila, T. Meyers, E. Moors, C. Moureaux, K. Pilegaard, N. Saigusa, S. Verma, T. Vesala, and C. Vogel, 2007. Linking flux network measurements to continental scale simulations: ecosystem CO2 exchange capacity under non-water-stressed conditions. Global Change Biology, 13: 734–760, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2007.01326.x.

Yuan, F. Arain M.A., Black T.A., Morgenstern K., 2007. Energy and water exchanges modulated by soil-plant nitrogen cycling in a temperate Pacific Northwest conifer forest. Ecological Modeling, 210: 31-347.

Jerrett, M., Arain, M.A., Kanaroglou, P., Beckerman, B., Crouse, D., Gilbert, N.L., Brook, J.R., Finkelstein, N., 2007. Modelling the intra-urban variability of ambient traffic pollution in Toronto, Canada. Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health. 70: 00-212.

Arain, M.A., Yaun F., Black T.A., 2006: Soil–plant nitrogen cycling modulated carbon exchanges in a western temperate conifer forest in Canada. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 140:171-192. DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2006.03.02.

Coursolle, C., Margolis, H.A., Barr, A.G., Black, T.A., Amiro, B.D., McCaughey J.H, Flanagan L.B., Lafleur P.M., Roulet N.T., Bourque C. P-A.., Arain M.A., Wofsy S.C., Dunn A., Morgenstern K., Orchansky A.L. Bernier P.Y., Chen J.M., Kidston J., Saigusa N., Hedstrom N, 2006. Late-summer carbon fluxes from Canadian forests and peatlandsalong an east-west continental transect. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 36(3): 783-800.

Grant R.F., Zhang Y., Yuan F., Wang, S., Hanson P.J., Chen J., Black T.A., Barr A., Baldocchi D.D., Arain A., 2006. Intercomparison of techniques to model water stress effects on CO2 and energy exchange in temperate and boreal deciduous forests. Ecosystem Modeling 196 (3-4): 289-312.

Khomik, M., Arain M.A., and McCaughey J.H., 2006. Temporal and spatial variability of soil respiration in a boreal mixedwood forest. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 140: 244-256. DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2006.08.006.

Peichl M., and Arain, M.A., 2006. Above- and belowground ecosystem biomass and carbon pools in an age-sequence of temperate pine plantation forests Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 140: 51-63. DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2006.08.004.

McCaughey J.H., Pejam M.R., Arain M.A., Cameron D.A, 2006. Carbon dioxide and energy fluxes from a boreal mixedwood forest ecosystem in Ontario, Canada , Canada. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 140: 79-96. DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2006.08.010.

Pejam M.R., M.A. Arain and J.H. McCaughey. 2006. Energy and water vapour exchanges over a mixedwood boreal forest in Ontario, Canada. Hydrological Processes, 20: 3709-3724. DOI: 10.1002/hyp.

Sahsuvaroglu, T., Arain M.A., Beckerman B’, Kanaroglou P., Brook J. Finkelstein N., Finkelstein M., Gilbert N., Newbold B., Jerrett J. 2006. A Land-Use Regression Model for Predicting Ambient Concentrations of Nitrogen Dioxide in Hamilton, Canada. Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association, 56:1059–1069.

Schwalm, C.R., Black, T.A., Amiro, B.D., Arain, M.A., Barr, A.G., Bourque, C. P.-A., Dunn, A.L., Flanagan, L.B., Giasson, M.-A., Lafleur, P.M., Margolis, H.A., McCaughey. J.H., Orchansky, A.L., Wofsy, S.C., 2006. Photosynthetic light use efficiency of three biomes across an east–west continental-scale transect in Canada. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 140: 269-286. DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2006.06.010.

Yi, S., M. A. Arain, and M.K. Woo (2006), Modifications of a land surface scheme for improved simulation of ground freeze-thaw in northern environments, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L13501, doi:10.1029/2006GL026340.

Arain, M.A. and Restrepo N., 2005. Net Ecosystem Production in an Eastern White Pine plantation in southern Canada. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 128: 223-241.

Grant R.F., Arain M.A., Arora V., Barr A., Black T.A., Chen J., Wang, S., Yuan F., Zhang Y., 2005. Modelling Temperature Effects on CO2 and Energy Exchange in Temperate and Boreal Coniferous Forests. Ecosystem Modeling 188: 217-252.

Jerrett, M., Arain, M.A., Kanaroglou, P., Beckerman. B., Dimitri P., Sahsuvaroglu, T., Morrison, J., Giovis, C., 2005. A review and evaluation of intra-urban air pollution exposure models. Journal of Exposure Analysis and Environmental Epidemiology, 15: 185-204.

Kanaroglou, P., M. Jerrett, J. Morrison, B. Beckerman, M.A. Arain, N. Gilbert, J. Brook. 2005. Establishing an air pollution monitoring network for intra-urban population exposure assessment: a location-allocation approach. Atmospheric Environment. 39:2399-2409.

Kothavala Z., Arain M.A., Black T.A., and Verseghy D., 2005. Evaluating fluxes of energy, water vapour and carbon dioxide over common crops. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 133: 89-108.

Restrepo N. and Arain M.A., 2005. Energy and water exchanges from a temperate pine forest. Hydrological Processes, 19-27-59.

Woo, M.K., Arain, M.A. , Mollinga, M., and Yi, S., 2004. A Two-directional freeze and thaw algorithm for hydrologic models and Land Surface Schemes. Geophysical Research Letters, VOL. 31, L12501, doi:10.1029/2004GL019475, 2004.

Rao, P.L.S., Mohanty, U.C., Raju, P.V.S. and Arain M.A., 2004. The vorticity and angular momentum budgets of Asian summer monsoon. Earth Planet. Science, 113 (3): 281-298.

Arain M.A., Black, T.A., Barr, A.G., Griffis, T.J., Morgenstern, K and Nesic, Z., 2003. Year round observations of the energy and water vapour fluxes above a boreal black spruce forest. Hydrological Processes, 17: 3581-3600.

Arain, M.A., Black T.A., Barr A.G., Jarvis, P.G., Massheder J.M., Verseghy D.L. and Nesic Z., 2002: Effects of seasonal and interannual climate variability on net ecosystem productivity of boreal deciduous and conifer forests. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 32: 878-891.

Arain, M.A., Shuttleworth, W.J., Blake F., Adams, J., and Omer L. Sen, 2000: Comparing micrometeorology of rainforests in Biosphere-2 and Amazon basin. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 100: 273-289.

Black, T.A., Chen, W.J., Barr, A.G., Arain. M.A., Chen, Z, Nesic, Z., Hogg, E.H., Neumann, H.H., and Yang,m P.C., 2000. Increased carbon sequestration by a boreal deciduous forest in years with warm spring. Geophysical Research Letters, 27(9): 1271-1274.

Burke, E.J., Shuttleworth, W.J., Yang, Z-L., Mullen, S.L., and Arain, M.A., 2000: Impact of heterogeneous vegetation on the modeled large-scale circulation in CCM3-BATS. Geophysical Research Letters, 27(3): 397-400.

Arain, M.A., Burke, E.J., Yang, Z-L., and Shuttleworth, W.J., 1999: Implementing surface parameter aggregation rules in the CCM3 global climate model: regional response at the land surface. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 3(4): 463-476.

Arain, M.A., Shuttleworth, W.J., Yang, Z-L., Michaud, J.D., and Dolman, A.J., 1997: Mapping surface cover parameters using aggregation rules and remotely sensed cover classes, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 123: 2325-2348.

Shuttleworth, W.J., Yang, Z-L., and Arain, M.A., 1997: Aggregation rules for surface parameters in global models, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 2: 217-226.

Unland, E.H., Arain, M.A., Harlow, C., Houser, P.R., Garatuza, J., Scott, P., Sen, O., and Shuttleworth, W.J., 1997: Evaporation from a riparian system in a semi-arid environment. Hydrological Processes, 12: 527-542.

White, C.B., Houser P.R., Arain, A.M., Yang Z.L., Syed, K., and Shuttleworth W.J., 1997: The aggregate description of semi-arid vegetation with precipitation-generated soil moisture heterogeneity. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 1: 205-212.

Arain, M.A., Michaud, J.D., Shuttleworth, W.J., and Dolman, A.J., 1996: Testing of vegetation parameter aggregation rules applicable to the Biosphere-Atmosphere Transfer Scheme (BATS) at the FIFE site, Journal of Hydrology, 177: 1-22.

 

 

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