Overview

Overview

Carolina joined the Exeter Climate System research group in September 2017 as a Software Engineer, providing support to JULES (Joint UK Land Environment Simulator) users at the University of Exeter. She is based on the level 8 in Laver building of Streatham Campus.

She has been involved in several projects and currently working on the following:

4C-EU project - Climate-Carbon interaccion in the Current Century: Jan 2021 - to date.

NZ plus - Greenhouse Gas Removal Demostrator: May 2021 - November 2025

ADD-TREES - Artifitial intelligence reseach to enable UK's net zero target. Mayo 2023 - March 2025

Previously, she was part of the following projects:

NERC CongoPeat: Past Present and Future of Peatlands of the Cetral Congo Basin. (Sept 2019 - Jan 2020)
CSSP-Brazil: NERC Fund "Meteorological driving data for offline land surface and impacts simulations". (Jan 2019 - Aug 2019)
C-CASCADES: Carbon Cascades from Land to Ocean in the Anthropocene. (Aug 2018 - Dec 2018)
CRESCENDO: Coordinated Research in Earth Systems and Climate: Experiments, kNowledge, Dissemination and Outreach. (Sept 2017- Jul 2018)

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Publications

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2024

• Vieira I, Meunier F, Sitch S, Brown F, Duran Rojas C, Gerosa G, Jansseans I, Boeckx P, Bauters M, Verbeeck H. (2024) Assessing the effects of surface ozone on forest GPP: a vegetation model approach using JULES, DOI:10.5194/egusphere-egu24-11946. [PDF]
• Chou H-K, Harper A, Argles A, Duran-Rojas C, Littleton E, Cox P. (2024) Evaluating the UK forest demography and carbon cycle using a process-based Land Surface Model, JULES-RED, DOI:10.5194/egusphere-egu24-15673. [PDF]

2023

• Ma Y, Yue X, Sitch S, Unger N, Uddling J, Mercado L, Gong C, Feng Z, Yang H, Zhou H. (2023) Implementation of trait-based ozone plant sensitivity in the Yale Interactive terrestrial Biosphere model v1.0 to assess global vegetation damage, GMD, DOI:10.5194/gmd-16-2261-2023.
• Bateman IJ, Anderson K, Argles A, Belcher C, Betts RA, Binner A, Brazier RE, Cho FHT, Collins RM, Day BH. (2023) A review of planting principles to identify the right place for the right tree for ‘net zero plus’ woodlands: Applying a place-based natural capital framework for sustainable, efficient and equitable (SEE) decisions, People and Nature, volume 5, no. 2, pages 271-301, DOI:10.1002/pan3.10331.

2021

• McGuire PC, Vidale PL, Best MJ, Case DH, Dharssi I, Duran Rojas MC, Hatcher RS, Lister GMS, Martinez de la Torre A, Montzka C. (2021) Improving the global modeling of soils in JULES and the Unified Model: Updating from UM/HWSD to SoilGrids soil properties and from the Brooks & Corey to the van Genuchten soil-hydraulics model, DOI:10.5194/ismc2021-63. [PDF]
• Harper AB, Williams KE, McGuire PC, Duran Rojas MC, Hemming D, Verhoef A, Huntingford C, Rowland L, Marthews T, Breder Eller C. (2021) Improvement of modeling plant responses to low soil moisture in JULESvn4.9 and evaluation against flux tower measurements, Geoscientific Model Development, volume 14, no. 6, pages 3269-3294, DOI:10.5194/gmd-14-3269-2021. [PDF]

2020

• Chadburn SE, Aalto T, Aurela M, Baldocchi D, Biasi C, Boike J, Burke EJ, Comyn‐Platt E, Dolman AJ, Duran‐Rojas C. (2020) Modeled Microbial Dynamics Explain the Apparent Temperature Sensitivity of Wetland Methane Emissions, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, volume 34, no. 11, DOI:10.1029/2020gb006678. [PDF]
• Wiltshire AJ, Duran Rojas MC, Edwards JM, Gedney N, Harper AB, Hartley AJ, Hendry MA, Robertson E, Smout-Day K. (2020) JULES-GL7: the Global Land configuration of the Joint UK Land Environment Simulator version 7.0 and 7.2, Geoscientific Model Development, volume 13, no. 2, pages 483-505, DOI:10.5194/gmd-13-483-2020. [PDF]

2019

• Littleton EW, Harper AB, Vaughan NE, Oliver RJ, Duran-Rojas MC, Lenton TM. (2019) JULES-BE: representation of bioenergy crops and harvesting in the Joint UK Land Environment Simulator vn5.1, DOI:10.5194/gmd-2019-175. [PDF]

2018

• Harper AB, Wiltshire AJ, Cox PM, Friedlingstein P, Jones CD, Mercado LM, Sitch S, Williams K, Duran-Rojas C. (2018) Vegetation distribution and terrestrial carbon cycle in a carbon cycle configuration of JULES4.6 with new plant functional types, Geoscientific Model Development, volume 11, no. 7, pages 2857-2873, DOI:10.5194/gmd-11-2857-2018.

2016

• Meng HYA, Plavchan P, Rieke GH, Cody AM, Güth T, Stauffer J, Covey K, Carey S, Ciardi D, Duran-Rojas MC. (2016) Photo-reverberation Mapping of a Protoplanetary Accretion Disk around a T Tauri Star, Astrophysical Journal, volume 823. [PDF]

2015

• Duran-Rojas MC. (2015) Observational and Theoretical study of the inner region of HH 30. [PDF]

2013

• Rizzo JR, Gomez JF, Miranda LF, Osorio M, Suarez O, Duran-Rojas MC. (2013) Sensitive CO and 13CO survey of water fountain stars. Detections towards IRAS 18460-0151 and IRAS 18596+0315. [PDF]

2009

• Durán-Rojas MC, Watson AM, Stapelfeldt KR, Hiriart D. (2009) The polarimetric and photometric variability of HH 30, Astronomical Journal, volume 137, no. 5, pages 4330-4338, DOI:10.1088/0004-6256/137/5/4330.
• Pinte C, Harries TJ, Min M, Watson AM, Dullemond CP, Woitke P, Menard F, Duran-Rojas MC. (2009) Benchmark problems for continuum radiative transfer High optical depths, anisotropic scattering, and polarisation, ASTRON ASTROPHYS, volume 498, no. 3, pages 967-980, DOI:10.1051/0004-6361/200811555.
• Pinte C, Harries TJ, Min M, Watson AM, Dullemond CP, Woitke P, Menard F, Duran-Rojas MC. (2009) Benchmark problems for continuum radiative transfer. High optical depths, anisotropic scattering, and polarisation, ArXiv e-prints, volume 0903, pages 1231-1231. [PDF]

2008

• Watson AM, Durán-Rojas MC, Stapelfeldt KR. (2008) The Photometric Variability of HH 30. [PDF]

2005

• Klessen RS, Ballesteros‐Paredes J, Vazquez‐Semadeni E, Duran‐Rojas C. (2005) Quiescent and Coherent Cores from Gravoturbulent Fragmentation, The Astrophysical Journal, volume 620, no. 2, pages 786-794, DOI:10.1086/427255. [PDF]

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