Whelan specializes in making difficult atmospheric chemical measurements that clarify land-atmosphere interactions under climate change.
Publications:
Villalba, G, ME Whelan, S Montzka, P Cameron-Smith, M Fischer, A Zumkehr, T Hilton, J Stinecipher, I Baker, RP Bambha, HA Michelsen, B LaFranchi, C Estruch, E Campbell: “Using carbonyl sulfide to track the urban biosphere signal” JGR-Atmosphere [in press].
Parazoo, N, K Bowman, J Liu, M Lee, L Kuai, B Baier, Y Shiga, I Baker, ME Whelan, S Feng, M Krol, K Davis: Covariation of airborne biogenic tracers (CO2, COS, and CO) supports stronger than expected growing season photosynthetic uptake in the southeastern US, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, [in review].
Hu, L, S Montzka, A Kaushik, A Andrews, C Sweeney, J Miller, I Baker, S Denning, E Campbell, Y Shiga, P Tans, C Siso, M Crotwell, K McKain, K Thoning, B Hall, I Vimont, J Elkins, ME Whelan, P Suntharalingam: Gross primary production over the North American Arctic and Boreal region inferred from atmospheric carbonyl sulfide measurements, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2021. 10.1073/pnas.2103423118
Maignan, F, C Abadie, M Remaud, LMJ Kooiijmans, K Kohonen, R Commane, R Wehr, JE Campbell, S Belviso, SA Montzka, N Raoult, U Seibt, YP Shiga, N Vuichard, ME Whelan, P Peylin: Carbonyl Sulfide: Comparing a Mechanistic Representation of the Vegetation Uptake in a Land Surface Model and the Leaf Relative Uptake Approach, Biogeosciences Discussions, 2021, https://bg.copernicus.org/preprints/bg-2020-381/.
Whelan, ME, LDL Anderegg, G Badgley, JE Campbell, R Commane, C Frankenberg, TW Hilton, L Kuai, N Parazoo, Y Shiga, Y Wang, J Worden: Two Scientific Communities Striving for a Common Cause: innovations in carbon cycle science, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0306.
Walker, AP, MG De Kauwe, A Bastos, S Belmecheri, K Georgiou, R Keeling, SM McMahon, BE Medlyn, DJP Moore, RJ Norby, S Zaehle, KJ Anderson‐Teixeira, G Battipaglia, RJW Brienen, KG Cabugao, M Cailleret, JE Campbell, J Canadell, P Ciais, ME Craig, D Ellsworth, G Farquhar, S Fatichi, JB Fisher, D Frank, H Graven, L Gu, V Haverd, K Heilman, M Heimann, BA Hungate, CM Iversen, F Joos, M Jiang, TF Keenan, J Knauer, C Körner, VO Leshyk, S Leuzinger, Y Liu, N MacBean, Y Malhi, T McVicar, J Penuelas, J Pongratz, AS Powell, T Riutta, MEB Sabot, J Schleucher, S Sitch, WK Smith, B Sulman, B Taylor, C Terrer, MS Torn, K Treseder, AT Trugman, SE Trumbore, PJ van Mantgem, SL Voelker, ME Whelan, PA Zuidema: Integrating the evidence for a terrestrial carbon sink caused by increasing atmospheric CO2, New Phytologist, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.16866.
Berkelhammer, M, B Alsip, R Matamala, D Cook, ME Whelan, C Bernacchi, J Miller, T Meyers: Seasonal evolution of canopy stomatal conductance for a prairie and maize field in the midwestern US from continuous carbonyl sulfide fluxes, GRL, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL085652
Meredith, LK, J Ogée, K Boye, E Singer, L Wingate, C von Sperber, A Sengupta, ME Whelan, E Pang, M Keiluweit, N Brüggemann, JA Berry, and PV Welander: Soil exchange rates of COS and CO18O differ with the diversity of microbial communities and their carbonic anhydrase enzymes, ISME Journal, 2019. https://rdcu.be/baB7C
Whelan, ME, ST Lennartz, TE Gimeno, R Wehr, G Wohlfahrt, Y Wang, L Kooijmans, TW Hilton, S Belviso, P Peylin, R Commane, W Sun, H Chen, L Kuai, I Mammarella, K Maseyk, M Berkelhammer, K-F Li, D Yakir, A Zumkehr, Y Katayama, J Ogée, FM Spielmann, F Kitz, B Rastogi, J Kesselmeier, J Marshall, K-M Erkkilä, L Wingate, LK Meredith, W He, R Bunk, T Launois, T Vesala, JA Schmidt, CG Fichot, U Seibt, S Saleska, ES Saltzman, SA Montzka, JA Berry, and JE Campbell: Reviews and Syntheses: Carbonyl Sulfide as a Multi-scale Tracer for Carbon and Water Cycles, Biogeosciences, 2018. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-3625-2018
Whelan, Mary. 2022. “Traversing Scales: Parts-per-Trillion to Gigatons.” The New Phytologist.
Abadie, Camille, Fabienne Maignan, Marine Remaud, Jérôme Ogée, J. Elliott Campbell, Mary E. Whelan, Florian Kitz, Felix M. Spielmann, Georg Wohlfahrt, Richard Wehr, Wu Sun, Nina Raoult, Ulli Seibt, Didier Hauglustaine, Sinikka T. Lennartz, Sauveur Belviso, David Montagne, and Philippe Peylin. 2022. “Global Modelling of Soil Carbonyl Sulfide Exchanges.” Biogeosciences 19 (9). Copernicus GmbH: 2427–63.
Hu, L, SA Montzka, A Kaushik, A Andrews, C Sweeney, J Miller, I Baker, S Denning, E Campbell, Y Shiga, P Tans, C Siso, M Crotwell, K McKain, K Thoning, B Hall, I Vimont, J Elkins, ME Whelan, P Suntharalingam, 2021, "COS-derived GPP relationships with temperature and light help explain high-latitude atmospheric CO2 seasonal cycle amplification." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118 (33).
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2103423118
Parazoo, N, K Bowman, J Liu, M Lee, L Kuai, B Baier, Y Shiga, I Baker, ME Whelan, S Feng, M Krol, K Davis, [accepted]. "Covariation of airborne biogenic tracers (CO2, COS, and CO) supports stronger than expected growing season photosynthetic uptake in the southeastern US", Global Biogeochemical Cycles.
Maignan, F, C Abadie, M Remaud, LMJ Kooijmans, K-M Kohonen, R Commane, R Wehr, JE Campbell, S Belviso, SA Montzka, N Raoult, U Seibt, Y Shiga, N Vuichard, ME
Whelan, and P Peylin, 2021. “Carbonyl Sulfide: Comparing a Mechanistic Representation of the Vegetation Uptake in a Land Surface Model and the Leaf Relative Uptake Approach.” Biogeosciences (18) 2917-2955. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-2917-2021
Villalba, G, ME Whelan, SA Montzka, PJ Cameron-Smith, M Fischer, A Zumkehr, TW Hilton, J Stincecipher, IT Baker, RP Bambha, HA Michelsen, BW LaFranchi, C Estruch, and JE Campbell, 2021. “Exploring the Potential of Using Carbonyl Sulfide to Track the Urban Biosphere Signal.” Journal of Geophysical Research (126) 13. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020jd034106
Kooijmans, LMJ, A Cho, J Ma, A Kaushik, KD Haynes, IT Baker, IT Luijkx, M Groenink, W Peters, JB Miller, JA Berry, J Ogée, LK Meredith, W Sun, K-M Kohonen, T Vesala, I Mammarella, H Chen, FM Spielmann, G Wohlfahrt, M Berkelhammer, ME Whelan, K Maseyk, U Seibt, R Commane, R Wehr, M Krol, 2021. “Evaluation of Carbonyl Sulfide Biosphere Exchange in the Simple Biosphere Model (SiB4).” https://doi.org/10.5194/bg- 2021-192
Walker, AP, MG De Kauwe, A Bastos, S Belmecheri, K Georgiou, R Keeling, SM McMahon, BE Medlyn, DJP Moore, RJ Norby, S Zaehle, KJ Anderson‐Teixeira, G Battipaglia, RJW Brienen, KG Cabugao, M Cailleret, JE Campbell, J Canadell, P Ciais, ME Craig, D Ellsworth, G Farquhar, S Fatichi, JB Fisher, D Frank, H Graven, L Gu, V Haverd, K Heilman, M Heimann, BA Hungate, CM Iversen, F Joos, M Jiang, TF Keenan, J Knauer, C Körner, VO Leshyk, S Leuzinger, Y Liu, N MacBean, Y Malhi, T McVicar, J Penuelas, J Pongratz, AS Powell, T Riutta, MEB Sabot, J Schleucher, S Sitch, WK Smith, B Sulman, B Taylor, C Terrer, MS Torn, K Treseder, AT Trugman, SE Trumbore, PJ van Mantgem, SL Voelker, ME Whelan, PA Zuidema, 2020. "Integrating the evidence for a terrestrial carbon sink caused by increasing atmospheric CO2", New Phytologist, (229) 2413–2445. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.16866
Whelan, ME, LDL Anderegg, G Badgley, JE Campbell, R Commane, C Frankenberg, TW Hilton, L Kuai, N Parazoo, Y Shiga, Y Wang, and J Worden, 2020. “Scientific Communities Striving for a Common Cause: Innovations in Carbon Cycle Science.” Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (101) 9, E1537–43. https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-19- 0306.1
Berkelhammer, M, B Alsip, R Matamala, D Cook, ME Whelan, E Joo, C Bernacchi, J Miller, and T Meyers, 2020. “Seasonal Evolution of Canopy Stomatal Conductance for a Prairie and Maize Field in the Midwestern United States from Continuous Carbonyl Sulfide Fluxes.” Geophysical Research Letters (47) 6. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL085652