A green planet versus a desert world: Estimating the maximum effect of vegetation on the land surface climate

Climatic Change

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 471-493

  Kleidon, Axel ^a,d   Fraedrich, Klaus ^b   Heimann, Martin ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; MODELING; VEGETATION;

EID: 0033968079     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005559518889     Document Type: Article

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