Scheffer, M., Xu, C., Hantson, S., Holmgren, M., Los, S., & Nes, E. (2018). A global climate niche for giant trees. Global Change Biology, 24(7), 2875-2883.
Los, S. & Los, S.(2015). Testing gridded land precipitation data and precipitation and runoff reanalyses (1982–2010) between 45° S and 45° N with normalised difference vegetation index data. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 19(4), 1713-1725.
Tucker, C., Newcomb, W., Los, S., Prince, S., & Los, S. (1991). Mean and inter-year variation of growing-season normalized difference vegetation index for the Sahel 1981-1989. , 12
Los, S. & Los, S.(1993). Calibration adjustment of the NOAA AVHRR Normalized Difference Vegetation Index without recourse to component channel 1 and 2 data. , 14
Los, S., Justice, C., Tucker, C., & Los, S. (1994). A global 1° by 1° NDVI data set for climate studies derived from the GIMMS continental NDVI data. , 15
Myneni, R., Los, S., Asrar, G., & Los, S. (1995). Potential gross primary productivity of terrestrial vegetation from 1982-1990. Geophysical Research Letters, 22(19), 2617-2620.
Sellers, P., Los, S., Tucker, C., Justice, C., Dazlich, D., Collatz, G., Randall, D., & Los, S. (1996). A revised land surface parameterization (SiB2) for atmospheric GCMs. Part II: The generation of global fields of terrestrial biophysical parameters from satellite data. , 9
Randall, D., Dazlich, D., Zhang, C., Denning, A., Sellers, P., Tucker, C., Bounoua, L., Berry, J., Collatz, G., Field, C., Los, S., Justice, C., Fung, I., & Los, S. (1996). A revised land surface parameterization (SiB2) for GCMs. Part III: The greening of the Colorado State University general circulation model. , 9
Sellers, P., Bounoua, L., Collatz, G., Randall, D., Dazlich, D., Los, S., Berry, J., Fung, I., Tucker, C., Field, C., Jensen, T., & Los, S. (1996). Comparison of radiative and physiological effects of doubled atmospheric CO2 on climate. , 271
Myneni, R., Los, S., Tucker, C., & Los, S. (1996). Satellite-based identification of linked vegetation index and sea surface temperature Anomaly areas from 1982-1990 for Africa, Australia and South America. Geophysical Research Letters, 23(7), 729-732.
PALMER, L., Robertson, I., Lavergne, A., Hemming, D., Loader, N., Young, G., Davies, D., Rinne‐Garmston, K., Los, S., & Williams, J. (2022). Spatio‐Temporal Variations in Carbon Isotope Discrimination Predicted by the JULES Land Surface Model. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 127(12)
Hallang, H., Los, S., & Hiemstra, J. (2022). Permafrost, thermal conditions and vegetation patterns since the mid-20th century: A remote sensing approach applied to Jotunheimen, Norway. Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment, 46(5), 716-736.
Hallang, H., Froyd, C., Hiemstra, J., & Los, S. (2022). Tree line shifts, changing vegetation assemblages and permafrost dynamics on Galdhøpiggen (Jotunheimen, Norway) over the past ~4400 years. The Holocene, 32(4), 308-320.
Los, S., Street-Perrott, A., Loader, N., & Froyd, C. (2021). Detection of signals linked to climate change, land-cover change and climate oscillators in Tropical Montane Cloud Forests. Remote Sensing of Environment, 260, 112431
Los, S., Street-Perrott, A., Loader, N., Froyd, C., Cuní-Sanchez, A., & Marchant, R. (2019). Sensitivity of a tropical montane cloud forest to climate change, present, past and future: Mt. Marsabit, N. Kenya. Quaternary Science Reviews, 218, 34-48.
Scheffer, M., Xu, C., Hantson, S., Holmgren, M., Los, S., & Nes, E. (2018). A global climate niche for giant trees. Global Change Biology, 24(7), 2875-2883.
Los, S. & Los, S.(2015). Testing gridded land precipitation data and precipitation and runoff reanalyses (1982–2010) between 45° S and 45° N with normalised difference vegetation index data. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 19(4), 1713-1725.
Bevan, S., Los, S., & North, P. (2014). Response of vegetation to the 2003 European drought was mitigated by height. Biogeosciences, 11(11), 2897-2908.
Los, S. & Los, S.(2013). Analysis of trends in fused AVHRR and MODIS NDVI data for 1982-2006: Indication for a CO2fertilization effect in global vegetation. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 27(2), 318-330.
McCarroll, D., Loader, N., Jalkanen, R., Gagen, M., Grudd, H., Gunnarson, B., Kirchhefer, A., Friedrich, M., Linderholm, H., Lindholm, M., Boettger, T., Los, S., Remmele, S., Kononov, Y., Yamazaki, Y., Young, G., Zorita, E., McCarroll, D., Loader, N...., & Young, G. (2013). A 1200-year multiproxy record of tree growth and summer temperature at the northern pine forest limit of Europe. The Holocene
Walsh, R., Ellison, S., Los, S., Bidin, K., Sayer, A., Tussin, A., Walsh, R., & Los, S. (2013). Changes in large rainstorm magnitude-frequency over the last century in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo and their geomorphological implications. The Holocene, 23(12), 1824-1840.
Leonenko, G., Los, S., & North, P. (2013). Statistical Distances and Their Applications to Biophysical Parameter Estimation: Information Measures, M-Estimates, and Minimum Contrast Methods. Remote Sensing, 5(3), 1355-1388.
Leonenko, G., Los, S., & North, P. (2013). Retrieval of leaf area index from MODIS surface reflectance by model inversion using different minimization criteria. Remote Sensing of Environment, 139, 257-270.
Bevan, S., North, P., Los, S., & Grey, W. (2012). A global dataset of atmospheric aerosol optical depth and surface reflectance from AATSR. Remote Sensing of Environment, 116, 199-210.
Los, S., Rosette, J., Kljun, N., North, P., Chasmer, L., Suárez, J., Hopkinson, C., Hill, R., Gorsel, E., Mahoney, C., Berni, J., North, P., Los, S., Rosette, J., & Kljun, N. (2012). Vegetation height and cover fraction between 60° S and 60° N from ICESat GLAS data. Geoscientific Model Development, 5, 413-432.
Blyth, E., Clark, D., Ellis, R., Huntingford, C., Los, S., Pryor, M., Best, M., Sitch, S., & Los, S. (2011). A comprehensive set of benchmark tests for a land surface model of simultaneous fluxes of water and carbon at both the global and seasonal scale. Geoscientific Model Development, 4, 255-269.
Tchuenté, A., Roujean, J., Bégué, A., Los, S., Boone, A., Mahfouf, J., Carrer, D., & Daouda, B. (2011). A New Characterization of the Land Surface Heterogeneity over Africa for Use in Land Surface Models. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 12(6), 1321-1336.
Shakesby, R., Matthews, J., Karlen, W., Los, S., Shakesby, R., & Los, S. (2011). The Schmidt hammer as a Holocene calibrated-age dating technique: Testing the form of the R-value-age relationship and defining the predicted-age errors. The Holocene, 21(4), 615-628.
McCarroll, D., Robertson, I., & Los, S. (2010). Erratum to D. McCarroll, M. Gagen, N. Loader, I. Robertson, K. Anchukaitis, S. Los, G. Young, R. Jalkanen, A. Kirchhefer, J. Waterhouse (2009), “Correction of tree ring stable carbon isotope chronologies for changes in the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere”, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 73, 1539–1547. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 74(10), 3040
Loader, N., Helle, G., Los, S., Lehmkuhl, F., Schleser, G., Loader, N., & Los, S. (2010). Twentieth-century summer temperature variability in the southern Altai Mountains: A carbon and oxygen isotope study of tree-rings. The Holocene, 20(7), 1149-1156.
North, P., Rosette, J., Suárez, J., Los, S., North, P., Los, S., & Rosette, J. (2010). A Monte Carlo radiative transfer model of satellite waveform LiDAR. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 31(5), 1343
Rosette, J., North, P., Suárez, J., & Los, S. (2010). Uncertainty within satellite LiDAR estimations of vegetation and topography. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 31(5), 1325
Ellis, R., Taylor, C., Weedon, G., Gedney, N., Clark, D., & Los, S. (2009). Evaluating the Simulated Seasonality of Soil Moisture with Earth Observation Data. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 10, 1548-1560.
Alton, P., Fisher, R., Los, S., & Williams, M. (2009). Simulations of global evapotranspiration using semiempirical and mechanistic schemes of plant hydrology. Global Biogeochemical Cycles
Bevan, S., North, P., Grey, W., Los, S., & Plummer, S. (2009). Impact of atmospheric aerosol from biomass burning on Amazon dry-season drought. Journal of Geophysical Research, 114(D9), n/a
TUOVINEN, M., McCarroll, D., GRUDD, H., JALKANEN, R., & Los, S. (2009). Spatial and temporal stability of the climatic signal in northern Fennoscandian pine tree-ring width and maximum density. Boreas, 38(1), 1
McCarroll, D., Gagen, M., Loader, N., Robertson, I., Anchukaitis, K., Los, S., Young, G., Jalkanen, R., Kirchhefer, A., & Waterhouse, J. (2009). Correction of tree ring stable carbon isotope chronologies for changes in the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 73(6), 1539
Houldcroft, C., Grey, W., Barnsley, M., Taylor, C., Los, S., & North, P. (2009). New Vegetation Albedo Parameters and Global Fields of Soil Background Albedo Derived from MODIS for Use in a Climate Model. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 10(1), 183
Medlock, J., Pietzsch, M., Rice, N., Jones, L., Kerrod, E., Avenell, D., Los, S., Ratcliffe, N., Leach, S., Butt, T., & Los, S. (2008). Investigation of Ecological and Environmental Determinants for the Presence of Questing <I>Ixodes ricinus</I> (Acari: Ixodidae) on Gower, South Wales. Journal of Medical Entomology, 45(2), 314-325.
Balzter, H., Gerard, F., George, C., Weedon, G., Grey, W., Combal, B., Bartholomé, E., Bartalev, S., Los, S., & Los, S. (2007). Coupling of Vegetation Growing Season Anomalies and Fire Activity with Hemispheric and Regional-Scale Climate Patterns in Central and East Siberia. Journal of Climate, 20(15), 3713-3729.
ALTON, P., NORTH, P., LOS, S., North, P., Los, S., & Alton, P. (2007). The impact of diffuse sunlight on canopy light-use efficiency, gross photosynthetic product and net ecosystem exchange in three forest biomes. Global Change Biology, 13(4), 776-787.
Alton, P., Ellis, R., Los, S., North, P., North, P., Los, S., & Alton, P. (2007). Improved global simulations of gross primary product based on a separate and explicit treatment of diffuse and direct sunlight. Journal of Geophysical Research, 112(D7)
Gibelin, A., Calvet, J., Roujean, J., Jarlan, L., Los, S., & Los, S. (2006). Ability of the land surface model ISBA-A-gs to simulate leaf area index at the global scale: Comparison with satellites products. Journal of Geophysical Research, 111(D18)
Los, S., Weedon, G., North, P., Kaduk, J., Taylor, C., & Cox, P. (2006). An observation-based estimate of the strength of rainfall-vegetation interactions in the Sahel. Geophysical Research Letters, 33(16)
Grey, W., North, P., Los, S., Mitchell, R., & Los, S. (2006). Aerosol optical depth and land surface reflectance from multiangle AATSR measurements: global validation and intersensor comparisons. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 44(8), 2184
Grey, W., North, P., & Los, S. (2006). Computationally efficient method for retrieving aerosol optical depth from ATSR-2 and AATSR data. Applied Optics, 45(12), 2786
Alton, P., North, P., Kaduk, J., & Los, S. (2005). Radiative transfer modeling of direct and diffuse sunlight in a Siberian pine forest. Journal of Geophysical Research, 110(D23)
Los, S., North, P., Grey, W., Barnsley, M., & Los, S. (2005). A method to convert AVHRR Normalized Difference Vegetation Index time series to a standard viewing and illumination geometry. Remote Sensing of Environment, 99(4), 400-411.
van den Hurk, B., Viterbo, P., Los, S., & Los, S. (2003). Impact of leaf area index seasonality on the annual land surface evaporation in a global circulation model. , 108
Schaefer, K., Denning, A., Suits, N., Kaduk, J., Baker, I., Los, S., Prihodko, L., & Los, S. (2002). Effect of climate on interannual variability of terrestrial CO2 fluxes. , 16
Guillevic, P., Koster, R., Suarez, M., Bounoua, L., Collatz, G., Los, S., Mahanama, S., & Los, S. (2002). Influence of the Interannual Variability of Vegetation on the Surface Energy Balance—A Global Sensitivity Study. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 3(6), 617-629.
Lobell, D., Hicke, J., Asner, G., Field, C., Tucker, C., Los, S., & Los, S. (2002). Satellite estimates of productivity and light use efficiency in United States agriculture, 1982-98. Global Change Biology, 8(8), 722-735.
Hicke, J., Asner, G., Randerson, J., Tucker, C., Los, S., Birdsey, R., Jenkins, J., Field, C., Holland, E., & Los, S. (2002). Satellite-derived increases in net primary productivity across North America, 1982-1998. , 29
Hicke, J., Asner, G., Randerson, J., Tucker, C., Los, S., Birdsey, R., Jenkins, J., Field, C., & Los, S. (2002). Trends in North American net primary productivity derived from satellite observations, 1982-1998. , 16
Tucker, C., Slayback, D., Pinzon, J., Los, S., Myneni, R., Taylor, M., & Los, S. (2001). Higher northern latitude normalized difference vegetation index and growing season trends from 1982 to 1999. International Journal of Biometeorology, 45(4), 184-190.
Los, S., Collatz, G., Bounoua, L., Sellers, P., & Tucker, C. (2001). Global Interannual Variations in Sea Surface Temperature and Land Surface Vegetation, Air Temperature, and Precipitation. Journal of Climate, 14(7), 1535-1549.
Los, S., Collatz, G., Sellers, P., Malmström, C., Pollack, N., DeFries, R., Bounoua, L., Parris, M., Tucker, C., Dazlich, D., & Los, S. (2000). A global 9-yr biophysical land surface dataset from NOAA AVHRR data. , 1
Collatz, G., Bounoua, L., Los, S., Randall, D., Fung, I., Sellers, P., & Los, S. (2000). A mechanism for the influence of vegetation on the response of the diurnal temperature range to changing climate. , 27
D'Arrigo, R., Malmstrom, C., Jacoby, G., Los, S., Bunker, D., & Los, S. (2000). Correlation between maximum latewood density of annual tree rings and NDVI based estimates of forest productivity. , 21
Bounoua, L., Collatz, G., Los, S., Sellers, P., Dazlich, D., Tucker, C., Randall, D., & Los, S. (2000). Sensitivity of climate to changes in NDVI. , 13
DeFries, R., Los, S., & Los, S. (1999). Implications of land-cover misclassification for parameter estimates in global land-surface models: An example from the simple biosphere model (SiB2). , 65
Los, S. & Los, S.(1998). Estimation of the ratio of sensor degradation between NOAA AVHRR channels 1 and 2 from monthly NDVI composites. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 36(1), 206-213.
Sellers, P., Los, S., Tucker, C., Justice, C., Dazlich, D., Collatz, G., Randall, D., & Los, S. (1996). A revised land surface parameterization (SiB2) for atmospheric GCMs. Part II: The generation of global fields of terrestrial biophysical parameters from satellite data. , 9
Randall, D., Dazlich, D., Zhang, C., Denning, A., Sellers, P., Tucker, C., Bounoua, L., Berry, J., Collatz, G., Field, C., Los, S., Justice, C., Fung, I., & Los, S. (1996). A revised land surface parameterization (SiB2) for GCMs. Part III: The greening of the Colorado State University general circulation model. , 9
Sellers, P., Bounoua, L., Collatz, G., Randall, D., Dazlich, D., Los, S., Berry, J., Fung, I., Tucker, C., Field, C., Jensen, T., & Los, S. (1996). Comparison of radiative and physiological effects of doubled atmospheric CO2 on climate. , 271
Myneni, R., Los, S., Tucker, C., & Los, S. (1996). Satellite-based identification of linked vegetation index and sea surface temperature Anomaly areas from 1982-1990 for Africa, Australia and South America. Geophysical Research Letters, 23(7), 729-732.
Sellers, P., Meeson, B., Closs, J., Collatz, J., Corprew, F., Dazlich, D., Hall, F., Kerr, Y., Koster, R., Los, S., Mitchell, K., McManus, J., Myers, D., Sun, K., Try, P., & Los, S. (1996). The ISLSCP initiative I global datasets: Surface boundary conditions and atmospheric forcings for land-atmosphere studies. , 77
Myneni, R., Los, S., Asrar, G., & Los, S. (1995). Potential gross primary productivity of terrestrial vegetation from 1982-1990. Geophysical Research Letters, 22(19), 2617-2620.
Los, S., Justice, C., Tucker, C., & Los, S. (1994). A global 1° by 1° NDVI data set for climate studies derived from the GIMMS continental NDVI data. , 15
Los, S. & Los, S.(1993). Calibration adjustment of the NOAA AVHRR Normalized Difference Vegetation Index without recourse to component channel 1 and 2 data. , 14
Tucker, C., Newcomb, W., Los, S., Prince, S., & Los, S. (1991). Mean and inter-year variation of growing-season normalized difference vegetation index for the Sahel 1981-1989. , 12
Williams, J., Los, S., Robertson, I., Marsh, T., & Los, S. (2011). Using geostatistical methods to produce a spatial and temporal gridded dataset of historic river flow across Great Britain. In Procedia Environmental Sciences (pp. 128-133).
Bevan, S., North, P., Grey, W., Los, S., Plummer, S., & Los, S. (2008). The impact of atmospheric aerosol from biomass burning on Amazon dry-season drought.
De Colstoun, E., Hall, F., Meeson, B., Los, S., Landis, D., & Los, S. (2002). The international satellite land surface climatology project (ISLSCP) initiative II data collection.
Climate-related tree health and their role in the carbon balance
(current)
PhD
Other supervisor: Dr Jacqueline Rosette
Modelling Coastal Vulnerability
An integrated approach to coastal management
using earth observation techniques in Belize
(awarded 2023)
MSc
Other supervisor: Prof Peter North
A comparison of the relationship between ground-measured particulate matter and aerosol optical depth derived from both Sentinel-3a and AERONET.
(current)