{"id":1282,"date":"2025-09-19T22:04:42","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T05:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/richardson-lab.nau.edu\/?p=1282"},"modified":"2025-09-19T22:05:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T05:05:20","slug":"paper-on-impacts-of-phenological-transitions-on-land-surface-temperature-out-in-pnas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richardson-lab.nau.edu\/?p=1282","title":{"rendered":"Paper on impacts of phenological transitions on land surface temperature out in PNAS!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Jen and Andrew are coauthors on a new paper out in <em>PNAS<\/em>, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1073\/pnas.2501844122\">Cooling outweighs warming across phenological transitions in the Northern Hemisphere<\/a>\u201d. Led by collaborator Lin Meng and her student Yizhuo Li at Vanderbilt, the paper shows that vegetation exerts a dominant surface cooling effect during phenological transitions in mid- to high-latitude forests, with amplified cooling under climate warming in many regions. Andrew\u2019s PhenoCam data were used to identify phenological transition dates at 17 AmeriFlux sites, and Jen analyzed long-wave radiation data from those tower sites to develop a land surface temperature dataset used to ground-truth patterns that had been initially identified from satellite remote sensing.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jen and Andrew are coauthors on a new paper out in PNAS, \u201cCooling outweighs warming across phenological transitions in the Northern Hemisphere\u201d. 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