Ross Morrison

@ceh.ac.uk

Flux Scientist, Land Surface Science, Hydro Climate Risks
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

Ross Morrison


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EDUCATION

BSc, PhD

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Biometeorology, peatlands, sustainable agriculture
3158

Scholar Citations

24

Scholar h-index

35

Scholar i10-index

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Biosphere-Atmosphere Exchanges of Carbon, Water, and Energy in India: Synthesis from Eddy Covariance Measurements for Enabling Socioeconomic Benefits
    PKD Burman, G Bhat, Y Tiwari, R Morrison, SR Rodda, S Mukherjee, ...
    EGU26 , 2026
    2026
  • Drained Agricultural Peatlands as Persistent Carbon Sources: Implications for Carbon and Water Use Intensity in Food Production
    B D'Acunha, CD Evans, A Bodo, H Cooper, DE Crabtree, A Cumming, ...
    Global Change Biology 32 (3), e70796 , 2026
    2026
  • A World-First Co-ordinated Flux Tower Network for Quantifying Coastal Greenhouse Gas Fluxes
    A Burden, K Blake, R Morrison, DE Crabtree, AJ Jovani-Sancho, ...
    2026 Ocean Sciences Meeting , 2026
    2026
  • Fresh to marine gradients and cycling of major nutrients in Almirantazgo Sound and, Parry and Marinelli fjords, Southern Patagonia, Chile
    A Belcher, C Evans, AJ Jovani-Sancho, R Morrison, J Hoyos-Santillan, ...
    2026 Ocean Sciences Meeting , 2026
    2026
  • A Systematic Review of the Ecosystem-Atmosphere Carbon, Water, and Energy Fluxes in India: Preliminary Findings and Future Scopes
    PD Burman, G Bhat, T Yk, R Morrison, S Rodda, S Mukherjee, V Dadhwal, ...
    Authorea Preprints , 2025
    2025
  • Measuring Fluxes of Nitrous Oxide (N2O) From an Intensively Farmed Wasted Peatland Field in the UK Using the Eddy Covariance Method
    N Cowan, A Cumming, R Morrison, H Clilverd, L Palmer, CD Evans
    Global Change Biology 31 (11), e70619 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 1
  • Ecosystem-atmosphere exchanges of carbon dioxide, water vapour and energy in India: A synthesis of insights from eddy covariance measurements
    PKD Burman, GS Bhat, YK Tiwari, R Morrison, SR Rodda, S Mukherjee, ...
    Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 372, 110730 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 3
  • Factors affecting the net ecosystem productivity of agroecosystems on mineral soils: a meta-analysis
    IL Lloyd, R Morrison, RP Grayson, MV Galdos, PJ Chapman
    Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems 49 (8), 1317-1348 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 2
  • Balancing Emissions, Productivity and Soil Health: Rewetting and Soil Amendments in a Cultivated Lowland Peatland in NW England
    L Andrews, M Nolan, R Morrison, C Bell, C Evans, E Monsen-Elvik, ...
    EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts, EGU25-18256 , 2025
    2025
  • Greenhouse gas balance for peat bogs in Northern-Ireland: moving towards Tier 2 emission factors using distributed eddy covariance measurements
    M van den Berg, T Riutta, E Reeve, H Thompson, A Cumming, J Jovani, ...
    EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts, EGU25-11779 , 2025
    2025
  • Biometeorological feedbacks on peatlands: Raising the water table to reduce meteorologically-related stress on cattle
    W Gherca, I Forbrich, A Jacotot, SH Knox, PG Leahy, R Morrison, T Sachs, ...
    Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 360, 110279 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 1
  • Dynamic parameterisation of plant physiological traits to model water, energy, and carbon fluxes in Triticum aestivum crops using thermal and optical remote sensing data
    MS Khan, R Caine, R Morrison, H Croft
    AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts 2024, B32B-07 , 2024
    2024
  • Nitrous oxide and methane fluxes from plasma-treated pig slurry applied to winter wheat
    IL Lloyd, RP Grayson, MV Galdos, R Morrison, PJ Chapman
    Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems 129 (3), 505-520 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 9
  • Biomethane produced from maize grown on peat emits more CO 2 than natural gas
    CD Evans, RL Rowe, BWJ Freeman, JM Rhymes, A Cumming, IL Lloyd, ...
    Nature Climate Change 14 (10), 1030-1032 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 5
  • Maize grown for bioenergy on peat emits twice as much carbon as when grown on mineral soil
    IL Lloyd, R Morrison, RP Grayson, AMJ Cumming, B D'Acunha, ...
    GCB Bioenergy 16 (7), e13169 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 1
  • Soil carbon data from a regeneratively tilled Miscanthus plantation in Lincolnshire with paired untilled and arable controls.
    R Rowe, A Keith, R Morrison, N McNamara
    2024
  • Carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide and methane fluxes from winter wheat treated with organic and inorganic fertilisers, UK, 2022
    IL LLoyd, RP Grayson, MV Galdos, R Morrison, PJ Chapman
    2024
  • Growing-season eddy covariance measurements of carbon dioxide, energy and water fluxes of a bioenergy maize crop, Yorkshire, UK, 2021.
    IL Lloyd, R Morrison, RP Grayson, MV Galdos, PJ Chapman
    2024
  • Meteorology, soil physics, and eddy covariance measurements of carbon dioxide, energy, and water exchange from a distributed network of sites across England and Wales, 2018-2023
    H Cooper, A Bodo, A Burden, N Callaghan, DE Crabtree, A Cumming, ...
    2024
    Citations: 2
  • Improved modelled crop water-use and crop productivity using thermal and optical remote sensing data
    M Sarfraz Khan, RS Caine, R Morrison, HL Croft
    European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2024 (EGU24), 10902 , 2024
    2024

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Overriding water table control on managed peatland greenhouse gas emissions
    CD Evans, M Peacock, AJ Baird, RRE Artz, A Burden, N Callaghan, ...
    Nature 593 (7860), 548-552 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 616
  • ECOSTRESS: NASA's next generation mission to measure evapotranspiration from the international space station
    JB Fisher, B Lee, AJ Purdy, GH Halverson, MB Dohlen, ...
    Water Resources Research 56 (4), e2019WR026058 , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 543
  • Land‐atmosphere interactions exacerbated the drought and heatwave over northern Europe during summer 2018
    PA Dirmeyer, G Balsamo, EM Blyth, R Morrison, HM Cooper
    AGU Advances 2 (2), e2020AV000283 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 241
  • Denial of long‐term issues with agriculture on tropical peatlands will have devastating consequences
    LS Wijedasa, J Jauhiainen, M Könönen, M Lampela, H Vasander, ...
    Global change biology 23 (3), 977-982 , 2017
    2017
    Citations: 188
  • Review of peat surface greenhouse gas emissions from oil palm plantations in Southeast Asia
    SE Page, R Morrison, C Malins, A Hooijer, JO Rieley, J Jauhiainen
    ICCT white paper 15, 1-78 , 2011
    2011
    Citations: 167
  • Validation of spaceborne and modelled surface soil moisture products with cosmic-ray neutron probes
    C Montzka, H Bogena, M Zreda, A Monerris, R Morrison, S Muddu, ...
    Remote sensing 9 (2), 103 , 2017
    2017
    Citations: 157
  • Soil water content in southern England derived from a cosmic‐ray soil moisture observing system–COSMOS‐UK
    JG Evans, HC Ward, JR Blake, EJ Hewitt, R Morrison, M Fry, LA Ball, ...
    Hydrological Processes 30 (26), 4987-4999 , 2016
    2016
    Citations: 149
  • Benefits and costs of ecological restoration: Rapid assessment of changing ecosystem service values at a UK wetland
    KSH Peh, A Balmford, RH Field, A Lamb, JC Birch, RB Bradbury, C Brown, ...
    Ecology and evolution 4 (20), 3875-3886 , 2014
    2014
    Citations: 107
  • Responsible agriculture must adapt to the wetland character of mid‐latitude peatlands
    BWJ Freeman, CD Evans, S Musarika, R Morrison, TR Newman, SE Page, ...
    Global Change Biology 28 (12), 3795-3811 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 97
  • A Miscanthus plantation can be carbon neutral without increasing soil carbon stocks
    AD Robertson, J Whitaker, R Morrison, CA Davies, P Smith, ...
    Gcb Bioenergy 9 (3), 645-661 , 2017
    2017
    Citations: 75
  • COSMOS-UK: national soil moisture and hydrometeorology data for environmental science research
    HM Cooper, E Bennett, J Blake, E Blyth, D Boorman, E Cooper, J Evans, ...
    Earth System Science Data 13 (4), 1737-1757 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 67
  • Improving soil moisture prediction of a high-resolution land surface model by parameterising pedotransfer functions through assimilation of SMAP satellite data
    E Pinnington, J Amezcua, E Cooper, S Dadson, R Ellis, J Peng, ...
    Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 25 (3), 1617-1641 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 65
  • Interaction of convective organization with monsoon precipitation, atmosphere, surface and sea: The 2016 INCOMPASS field campaign in India
    AG Turner, GS Bhat, GM Martin, DJ Parker, CM Taylor, AK Mitra, ...
    Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 146 (731), 2828-2852 , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 46
  • The full carbon balance of a rewetted cropland fen and a conservation-managed fen
    M Peacock, V Gauci, AJ Baird, A Burden, PJ Chapman, A Cumming, ...
    Agriculture, ecosystems & environment 269, 1-12 , 2019
    2019
    Citations: 38
  • Multi-scale entropy analysis as a method for time-series analysis of climate data
    H Balzter, N Tate, J Kaduk, D Harper, S Page, R Morrison, M Muskulus, ...
    Climate 3 (1), 227-240 , 2015
    2015
    Citations: 38
  • Land-atmosphere interactions exacerbated the drought and heatwave over Northern Europe during summer 2018, AGU Adv., 2, e2020AV000283
    PA Dirmeyer, G Balsamo, EM Blyth, R Morrison, HM Cooper
    2021
    Citations: 37
  • Seasonal variation of evapotranspiration and its effect on the surface energy budget closure at a tropical forest over north-east India
    PK Deb Burman, D Sarma, R Morrison, A Karipot, S Chakraborty
    Journal of Earth System Science 128 (5), 127 , 2019
    2019
    Citations: 35
  • A coupled ground heat flux–surface energy balance model of evaporation using thermal remote sensing observations
    BK Bhattacharya, K Mallick, D Desai, GS Bhat, R Morrison, JR Clevery, ...
    Biogeosciences 19 (23), 5521-5551 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 34
  • Final report on project SP1210: Lowland peatland systems in England and Wales–evaluating greenhouse gas fluxes and carbon balances
    C Evans, R Morrison, A Burden, J Williamson, A Baird, E Brown, ...
    Centre for Ecology and Hydrology , 2016
    2016
    Citations: 32
  • A study of field-scale soil moisture variability using the COsmic-ray Soil Moisture Observing System (COSMOS) at IITM Pune site
    M Mujumdar, MM Goswami, R Morrison, JG Evans, N Ganeshi, ...
    Journal of Hydrology 597, 126102 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 31