Publications

Colombia, Minca. Photo: C. Allen

See also my Google Scholar page.

2023

Beck, H., T. R. McVicar, N. Vergopolan, A. Berg, N. Zimmermann, A. I.J.M. van Dijk, and D. G. Miralles, High-resolution (1 km) Köppen-Geiger maps for 1901–2099 based on constrained CMIP6 projections, Scientific Data, 10(1), 72

Byrne, M. et al., A. Berg, Theory and the future of land-climate science, Nature Geoscience (subm.)

Laibao, L., R. A. Fisher, H. Douville, R. Padrón, A. Berg, J. Mao, A. Alessandri, H Kim, S. I. Seneviratne, No constraint on long-term tropical land carbon-climate feedback uncertainties from interannual variability, PNAS (subm.).


2022

Berg, A. (2022), Bridging the gap between simple metrics and model simulations of climate change impacts on land hydrology, Earth's Future, e2022EF003259.

McColl, K, M. L. Roderick, A. Berg, J. Scheff (2022), The terrestrial water cycle in a warming world, Nature Climate Change, 12 (7), 604-606.


2021

Berg, A., K. McColl, No global drylands expansion under greenhouse warming, Nature Climate Change, 11 (4), 331-337.

Humphrey, V., A. Berg, P. Ciais, C. Frankenberg, P. Gentine, M. Jung, M. Reichstein & S. I. Seneviratne (2021). Soil moisture-atmosphere feedbacks dominate land carbon uptake variability,  Nature, 592 (7852), 65-69

Lian, Xu, S. Piao, A. Chen, C. Huntingford, B. Fu, L. Li, J. Huang, J. Sheffield, A. Berg, T. Keenan, T. McVicar, Y. Wada, X. Wang, T. Wang, Y. Yang and M. Roderick (2021), Multifaceted characteristics of dryland aridity changes in a warming world, Nature Reviews Earth and Environment, 2 (4), 232-250.

Zhou, S., B. Lintner, A. Berg, Y. Zhang, T. Keenan, B. Cook, S. Hagemann, S. Seneviratne & P. Gentine (2021), Soil moisture-atmosphere feedbacks mitigate projected surface water availability declines in drylands, Nature Climate Change, 11 (1), 38-44

Chen, S., K. McColl, A. Berg, Y. Huang (2021), Surface flux equilibrium predictions of evapotranspiration at large spatial scales,  Journal of Hydrometeorology, 22 (4), 765-779


2020

Pausata, F., M. Gaetani, G. Messori, A. Berg, D. Maia de Souza, R. Sage and P. de Monacal (2020), The Greening of the Sahara: Past Changes and Future Implications, One Earth, 2(3), 235-250.


2019

Berg, A., J. Sheffield (2019), Historic and projected changes in coupling between soil moisture and evapotranspiration (ET) confounded by the role of different ET components,  Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmosphere, 124 (11), 5791-5806.

Berg, A., J. Sheffield (2019), Evapotranspiration partitioning in CMIP5 models: uncertainties and future changes. Journal of Climate, 32(10), 2653-2671.

Green, J., S. Seneviratne, A. Berg, K. Findell, S. Hagemann, D. Lawrence , and P. Gentine (2019), Large influence of soil moisture on long-term terrestrial carbon uptake, Nature, 565(7740), 476.

Zhou, S., P. Gentine, A. P. Williams, Y. Zhang, A. Berg, S. Hagemann, R. Lorenz, and S. I. Seneviratne (2019), Land-atmosphere feedbacks exacerbate compound drought and atmospheric aridity events, PNAS, 116(38), 18848-18853.

Findell, K., P. Keys, R. van der Ent, B. Lintner, A. Berg, and J. Krasting, (2019), Rising Temperatures Increase Importance of Oceanic Evaporation as a Source for Continental Precipitation,  Journal of Climate, 2(22), 7713-7726.

Maloney, E., et al., A.Berg, A framework for process-oriented evaluation of climate and weather forecasting models, Bull. Am. Met. Soc., 100(9), 1665-1686


2018

Berg A. and J. Sheffield (2018), Global warming and drought: the soil moisture perspective, Current Climate Change Reports, 4(2), 180-191.

Berg A. and J. Sheffield (2018), Soil moisture-evapotranspiration coupling in CMIP5 models: relationship with simulated climate and projections, Journal of Climate, 31(12), 4865-4878. 

Beck, H., N. Zimmermann, T. McVicar, N. Vergopolan, A. Berg, and E. Wood (2018), Present and future Köppen-Geiger climate classification maps at 1-km resolution, Scientific Data, 5, 180214.

Roy, T., A. Martinez, J. Estrada, F. Dominguez, A. Berg, and E. Wood (2018), Role of recycling and advection in the 2011-2012 US droughts: An analysis using the Climate Forecast System version 2. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 20, 139–154.

Santanello, J.A., P.A. Dirmeyer, C.R. Ferguson, K.L. Findell, A.B. Tawfik, A. Berg, M. Ek, P. Gentine, B.P. Guillod, C. van Heerwaarden, J. Roundy, and V. Wulfmeyer (2018 ), Land–Atmosphere Interactions: The LoCo Perspective. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 99, 1253–1272.


2017

Berg, A., J. Sheffield, C. Milly (2017), Divergent surface and total soil moisture projections under global warming, Geophysical Research Letters, 44, 236-244. [Eos Research highlight].

Berg, A., B. Lintner, K. Findell, A. Giannini (2017), Uncertain soil moisture feedbacks in model projections of Sahel precipitation, Geophysical Research Letters, 44, 6124-6133.

Berg, A., B. Lintner, K. Findell, A. Giannini (2017), Soil moisture influence on seasonality and large-scale circulation in simulations of the West African Monsoon, Journal of Climate, 30, 2295–2317.

Findell, K., A. Berg, et al. (2017) The impact of historical land use/land cover change on regional climate extremes, Nature Communications, 8(1):989.


2016

Berg, A., K. Findell, B. Lintner, A. Giannini, et al., Land-atmosphere feedbacks amplify aridity increase over land under global warming (2016), Nature Climate Change, 6, 869-874.

Covey, C., P.J. Gleckler, C, Doutriaux, D.N. Williams, A. Dai, J. Fasullo, K. Trenberth, A. Berg (2016), Metrics for the diurnal cycle of precipitation: Toward routine benchmarks fo Climate Models, Journal of Climate, 29, 4461-4471.

Lorenz, R., D. Argüeso, M. Donat, A. Pitman, B. van den Hurk, A. Berg, D. Lawrence,F. Cheruy, A. Ducharne, S. Hagemann, A. Meier, C. Milly, S. Seneviratne (2016), Influence of land-atmosphere feedbacks on temperature and precipitation extremes in the GLACE-CMIP5 ensemble, JGR-atmos, 121, 607-623.


2015

Berg, A., B. Lintner, K. Findell, S. Seneviratne, B.van den Hurk, F. Cheruy, A. Ducharne, S. Hagemann, D. Lawrence, S. Malyshev, A. Meier, and P. Gentine (2015), Interannual coupling between summertime surface temperature and precipitation over land: processes and implications for climate change, Journal of Climate, 28, 1308–1328.

May, W., A. Meier, M. Rummukainen, A. Berg, F. Cheruy and S. Hagemann (2015), Contributions of soil moisture interactions to climate change in the tropics in the GLACE-CMIP5 experiment. Climate Dynamics, 45(11), 3275-3297. 


2014

Berg, A., B. Lintner,  K. Findell, S. Malyshev, P. Loikith and P. Gentine (2014), Impacts of soil moisture-atmosphere interactions on surface temperature distribution, Journal of Climate, 27, 7976–7993.

Mougin, E., V. Demarez, M. Diawara, P. Hiernaux, and A. Berg (2014), Estimation of LAI, fAPAR and fCover of Sahel rangelands (Gourma, Mali), Agricultural and Forest Meteorology,198,155–167.  


2013

Berg, A., K. Findell, B. Lintner, P. Gentine, C. Kerr (2013), Precipitation Sensitivity to Surface Heat Fluxes over North America in Reanalysis and Model Data, Journal of Hydrometeorology, 14, 722–743.

Berg, A. , N. de Noblet-Ducoudre, B. Sultan, M. Lengaigne and M. Guimberteau (2013), Projections of climate change impacts on potential C4 crop productivity over tropical regions, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology,170, 89-102. 

Seneviratne, S., M. Wilhelm, T. Stanelle, B. van den Hurk, S. Hagemann, A. Berg, F. Cheruy, M. Higgins, A. Meier, V. Brovkin, M. Claussen, J.-L. Dufresne, K. Findell, D. Lawrence, S. Malyshev, and Ben Smith (2013), Impact of soil moisture-climate feedbacks on CMIP5 projections: First results from the GLACE-CMIP5 experiment, Geophysical Research Letters, 40, 5212-5217.


2011

Berg, A., B. Sultan, and N. de Noblet-Ducoudré (2011), Including tropical croplands in a terrestrial biosphere model: applications to West Africa, Climatic Change, 104, 755-782. 

Roudier, P., B. Sultan, P. Quirion , A. Berg (2011), The impact of future climate change on West African agriculture: what does the recent literature say? Global Environmental Change, 21, 1073–1083. 


2010

Berg, A., B. Sultan, and N. de Noblet-Ducoudré (2010), What are the dominant features of rainfall leading to realistic large-scale crop yield simulations in West Africa?, Geophysical Research Letters, 37, L05405.


2009

Berg, A., P. Quirion, and B. Sultan (2009), Weather-Index Drought Insurance in Burkina-Faso: Assessment of Its Potential Interest to Farmers, Weather, Climate and Society, 1, 71–84.

Sultan, B., M. Bella-Medjo, A. Berg, P. Quirion and S. Janicot (2009), Multi-scales and multi-sites analysis of the role of climate in cotton yields in West Africa, International Journal of Climatology, 30, 58–71.

My PhD Thesis:

Représentation des cultures tropicales dans le modèle de surface continentale ORCHIDEE: apport à l'étude des interactions climat/agriculture (pdf),

Alexis Berg, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 2011.