Sierra, C. A.; Quetin, G. R.; Metzler, H.; Mueller, M.: A decrease in the age of respired carbon from the terrestrial biosphere and increase in the asymmetry of its distribution. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London - Series A: Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences 381 (2261), 20220200 (2023)
Sierra, C.; Metzler, H.; Mueller, M.; Kaiser, E.: Closed-loop and congestion control of the global carbon climate system. Climatic Change 165, 15 (2021)
Metzler, H.; Zhu, Q.; Riley, W.; Hoyt, A. M.; Müller, M.; Sierra, C.: Mathematical reconstruction of land carbon models from their numerical output: computing soil radiocarbon from 12C dynamics. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 12 (1), e2019MS001776 (2020)
Sierra, C. A.; Ceballos-Núñez, V.; Metzler, H.; Mueller, M.: Representing and understanding the carbon cycle using the theory of compartmental dynamical systems. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 10 (8), pp. 1729 - 1734 (2018)
Metzler, H.; Mueller, M.; Sierra, C.: Transit-time and age distributions for nonlinear time-dependent compartmental systems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 115 (6), pp. 1150 - 1155 (2018)
Metzler, H.; Sierra, C.: Linear autonomous compartmental models as continuous-time Markov chains: transit-time and age distributions. Mathematical Geosciences 50 (1), pp. 1 - 34 (2018)
Sierra, C.; Müller, M.; Metzler, H.; Manzoni, S.; Trumbore, S. E.: The muddle of ages, turnover, transit, and residence times in the carbon cycle. Global Change Biology 23 (5), pp. 1763 - 1773 (2017)
Metzler, H.: Compartmental systems as Markov chains: age, transit time, and entropy. Dissertation, 127 pp., Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena (2020)
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