Publications of Axel Kleidon

Bowring, S. P. K.; Miller, L.; Ganzeveld, L.; Kleidon, A.: Applying the concept of “energy return on investment” to desert greening of the Sahara/Sahel using a global climate model. Earth System Dynamics 5 (1), pp. 43 - 53 (2014)

Buendía, C.; Arens, S.; Hickler, T.; Higgins, S. I.; Porada, P.; Kleidon, A.: On the potential vegetation feedbacks that enhance phosphorus availability – insights from a process-based model linking geological and ecological timescales. Biogeosciences 11, pp. 3661 - 3683 (2014)

Ehret, U.; Gupta, H. V.; Sivapalan, M.; Weijs, S. V.; Schymanski, S. J.; Blöschl, G.; Gelfan, A. N.; Harman, C.; Kleidon, A.; Bogaard, T. A. et al.; Wang, D.; Wagener, T.; Scherer, U.; Zehe, E.; Bierkens, M. F. P.; Baldassarre, G. D.; Parajka, J.; van Beek, L. P. H.; van Griensven, A.; Westhoff, M. C.; Winsemius, H. C.: Advancing catchment hydrology to deal with predictions under change. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 18 (2), pp. 649 - 671 (2014)

Kleidon, A.; Renner, M.; Porada, P.: Estimates of the climatological land surface energy and water balance derived from maximum convective power. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 18, pp. 2201 - 2218 (2014)

Porada, P.; Weber, B.; Elbert, W.; Pöschl, U.; Kleidon, A.: Estimating impacts of lichens and bryophytes on global biogeochemical cycles. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 28 (2), pp. 71 - 85 (2014)

Reu, B.; Zaehle, S.; Bohn, K.; Pavlick, R.; Schmidtlein, S.; Williams, J. W.; Kleidon, A.: Future no-analogue vegetation produced by no-analogue combinations of temperature and insolation. Global Ecology and Biogeography 23 (2), pp. 156 - 167 (2014)

Zehe, E.; Ehret, U.; Pfister, L.; Blume, T.; Schroeder, B.; Westhoff, M.; Jackisch, C.; Schymanski, S. J.; Weiler, M.; Schulz, K. et al.; Allroggen, N.; Tronicke, J.; van Schaik, L.; Dietrich, P.; Scherer, U.; Eccard, J.; Wulfmeyer, V.; Kleidon, A.: HESS Opinions: From response units to functional units: a thermodynamic reinterpretation of the HRU concept to link spatial organization and functioning of intermediate scale catchments. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 18 (11), pp. 4635 - 4655 (2014)

Tian, Y.; Zhong, D.; Ghausi, S. A.; Wang, G.; Kleidon, A.: Understanding variations in downwelling longwave radiation using Brutsaert's equation. Earth System Dynamics 14 (6), pp. 1363 - 1374 (2013)

Kleidon, A.; Renner, M.: A simple explanation for the sensitivity of the hydrologic cycle to surface temperature and solar radiation and its implications for global climate change. Earth System Dynamics 4, pp. 455 - 465 (2013)

Porada, P.; Weber, B.; Elbert, W.; Pöschl, U.; Kleidon, A.: Estimating global carbon uptake by lichens and bryophytes with a process-based model. Biogeosciences 10, p. 6989 - 6989 (2013)

Warszawski, L.; Friend, A.; Ostberg, S.; Frieler, K.; Lucht, W.; Schaphoff, S.; Beerling, D.; Cadule, P.; Ciais, P.; Clark, D. B. et al.; Kahana, R.; Ito, A.; Keribin, R.; Kleidon, A.; Lomas, M.; Nishina, K.; Pavlick, R.; Rademacher, T. T.; Buechner, M.; Piontek, F.; Schewe, J.; Serdeczny, O.; Schellnhuber, H. J.: A multi-model analysis of risk of ecosystem shifts under climate. Environmental Research Letters 8, 044018 (2013)

Simoncini, E.; Virgo, N.; Kleidon, A.: Quantifying drivers of chemical disequilibrium: theory and application to methane in the Earth's atmosphere. Earth System Dynamics 4, pp. 317 - 331 (2013)

Kleidon, A.; Renner, M.: Thermodynamic limits of hydrologic cycling within the Earth system: concepts, estimates and implications. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 17 (7), pp. 2873 - 2892 (2013)

Pavlick, R.; Drewry, D. T.; Bohn, K.; Reu, B.; Kleidon, A.: The Jena Diversity-Dynamic Global Vegetation Model (JeDi-DGVM): a diverse approach to representing terrestrial biogeography and biogeochemistry based on plant functional trade-offs. Biogeosciences 10, pp. 4137 - 4177 (2013)

Kleidon, A.; Zehe, E.; Ehret, U.; Scherer, U.: Thermodynamics, maximum power, and the dynamics of preferential river flow structures at the continental scale. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 17, pp. 225 - 251 (2013)

Zehe, E.; Blume, T.; Kleidon, A.; Ehret, U.; Scherer, U.; Westhoff, M.: A thermodynamic approach to link self-organization, preferential flow and rainfall–runoff behaviour. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 17 (11), pp. 4297 - 4322 (2013)

Gans, F.; Miller, L. M.; Kleidon, A.: The problem of the second wind turbine – a note on a common but flawed wind power estimation method. Earth System Dynamics 3, pp. 79 - 86 (2012)

Kleidon, A.: How does the Earth system generate and maintain thermodynamic disequilibrium and what does it imply for the future of the planet? Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London - Series A: Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences 370 (1962), pp. 1012 - 1040 (2012)

Kleidon, A.: Was leistet die Erde? Physik in unserer Zeit 43 (3), pp. 136 - 144 (2012)

Arens, S.; Kleidon, A.: Eco-hydrological versus supply-limited weathering regimes and the potential for biotic enhancement of weathering at the global scale. Applied Geochemistry 26, pp. S274 - S278 (2011)