@article{reichstein2025ews,title={Early warning of complex climate risk with integrated artificial intelligence},author={Reichstein*, Markus and Benson*, Vitus and Blunk, Jan and Camps-Valls, Gustau and Creutzig, Felix and Fearnley, Carina J and Han, Boran and Kornhuber, Kai and Rahaman, Nasim and Sch{\"o}lkopf, Bernhard and Tárraga, José María and Frank, Dorothea and Martini, Giulia and Vinuesa, Ricardo and Dall, Karen and Denzler, Joachim and Nganga, Naomi and Maddix Robinson, Danielle and Weldemariam, Kommy},journal={Nature Communications},volume={16},number={1},pages={2564},year={2025},month=mar,publisher={Nature Publishing Group UK London},}
JAMES
Atmospheric Transport Modeling of CO2 with Neural Networks
Vitus Benson , Ana Bastos , Christian Reimers , Alexander J. Winkler , Fanny Yang , and 1 more author
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, Feb 2025
@article{benson2024neuraltransport,title={Atmospheric Transport Modeling of CO2 with Neural Networks},author={Benson, Vitus and Bastos, Ana and Reimers, Christian and Winkler, Alexander J. and Yang, Fanny and Reichstein, Markus},year={2025},month=feb,pages={e2024MS004655},journal={Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems},volume={17},number={2},publisher={Wiley Online Library},}
Sci. Data
DeepExtremeCubes: Earth system spatio-temporal data for assessing compound heatwave and drought impacts
Chaonan Ji , Tonio Fincke , Vitus Benson , Gustau Camps-Valls , Miguel-Ángel Fernández-Torres , and 10 more authors
@article{ji2025deepextremecubes,title={DeepExtremeCubes: Earth system spatio-temporal data for assessing compound heatwave and drought impacts},author={Ji, Chaonan and Fincke, Tonio and Benson, Vitus and Camps-Valls, Gustau and Fern{\'a}ndez-Torres, Miguel-{\'A}ngel and Gans, Fabian and Kraemer, Guido and Martinuzzi, Francesco and Montero, David and Mora, Karin and Pellicer-Valero, Oscar J. and Robin, Claire and Söchting, Maximilian and Weynants, Mélanie and Mahecha, Miguel D.},journal={Scientific Data},volume={12},number={1},pages={149},year={2025},month=jan,publisher={Nature Publishing Group UK London},}
2024
CVPR
Multi-modal Learning for Geospatial Vegetation Forecasting
Vitus Benson , Claire Robin , Christian Requena-Mesa , Lazaro Alonso , Nuno Carvalhais , and 5 more authors
Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Jun 2024
@article{benson2024multimodal,title={Multi-modal Learning for Geospatial Vegetation Forecasting},author={Benson, Vitus and Robin, Claire and Requena-Mesa, Christian and Alonso, Lazaro and Carvalhais, Nuno and Cort\'es, Jos\'e and Gao, Zhihan and Linscheid, Nora and Weynants, M\'elanie and Reichstein, Markus},year={2024},month=jun,pages={27788-27799},journal={Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},}
GCB
Global patterns of tree wood density
Hui Yang , Siyuan Wang , Rackhun Son , Hoontaek Lee , Vitus Benson , and 14 more authors
@article{yang2024wooddensity,author={Yang, Hui and Wang, Siyuan and Son, Rackhun and Lee, Hoontaek and Benson, Vitus and Zhang, Weijie and Zhang, Yahai and Zhang, Yuzhen and Kattge, Jens and Boenisch, Gerhard and Schepaschenko, Dmitry and Karaszewski, Zbigniew and Stereńczak, Krzysztof and Moreno-Martínez, Álvaro and Nabais, Cristina and Birnbaum, Philippe and Vieilledent, Ghislain and Weber, Ulrich and Carvalhais, Nuno},title={Global patterns of tree wood density},journal={Global Change Biology},volume={30},number={3},pages={e17224},year={2024},month=mar}
ERL
Measuring Tropical Rainforest Resilience under Non-Gaussian Disturbances
Vitus Benson , Jonathan F. Donges , Niklas Boers , Marina Hirota , Andreas Morr , and 3 more authors
@article{benson.etal_2024,title={Measuring Tropical Rainforest Resilience under Non-{{Gaussian}} Disturbances},author={Benson, Vitus and Donges, Jonathan F. and Boers, Niklas and Hirota, Marina and Morr, Andreas and Staal, Arie and Vollmer, Jürgen and Wunderling, Nico},year={2024},month=jan,journal={Environmental Research Letters},volume={19},number={2},pages={024029},publisher={{IOP Publishing}},doi={10.1088/1748-9326/ad1e80},}
2022
TCCML
Learning to Forecast Vegetation Greenness at Fine Resolution over Africa with ConvLSTMs
Claire Robin , Christian Requena-Mesa , Vitus Benson , Lazaro Alonso , Jeran Poehls , and 2 more authors
NeurIPS Workshop Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning, Dec 2022
@article{robin.etal_2022,title={Learning to Forecast Vegetation Greenness at Fine Resolution over {{Africa}} with {{ConvLSTMs}}},author={Robin, Claire and Requena-Mesa, Christian and Benson, Vitus and Alonso, Lazaro and Poehls, Jeran and Carvalhais, Nuno and Reichstein, Markus},year={2022},month=dec,journal={NeurIPS Workshop Tackling {{Climate Change}} with {{Machine Learning}}},}
2021
EarthVision
EarthNet2021: A Large-Scale Dataset and Challenge for Earth Surface Forecasting as a Guided Video Prediction Task.
Christian Requena-Mesa* , Vitus Benson* , Markus Reichstein , Jakob Runge , and Joachim Denzler
Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops, Jun 2021
@article{requena-mesa.etal_2021,title={{{EarthNet2021}}: {{A Large-Scale Dataset}} and {{Challenge}} for {{Earth Surface Forecasting}} as a {{Guided Video Prediction Task}}.},author={Requena-Mesa*, Christian and Benson*, Vitus and Reichstein, Markus and Runge, Jakob and Denzler, Joachim},year={2021},month=jun,pages={1132--1142},journal={Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops},}
2020
AI+HADR
Assessing Out-of-Domain Generalization for Robust Building Damage Detection
Vitus Benson , and Alexander Ecker
NeurIPS Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Response (AI+HADR), Dec 2020
@article{benson.ecker_2020,title={Assessing Out-of-Domain Generalization for Robust Building Damage Detection},author={Benson, Vitus and Ecker, Alexander},journal={NeurIPS Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Humanitarian Assistance and {{Disaster Response (AI}}+HADR)},month=dec,year={2020},}
