How strong is carbon cycle-climate feedback under global warming?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 20, 2004, Pages

  Zeng, Ning ^a   Qian, Haifeng ^a   Munoz, Ernesto ^a   Iacono, Roberto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b ENEA   (Italy)

Author keywords

0315 Atmospheric composition and structure: Biosphere atmosphere interactions; 0330 Atmospheric Composition and Structure: Geochemical cycles; 1620 Global Change: Climate dynamics (3309)

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECOMPOSITION; FERTILIZERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOILS;

CARBON CYCLE; CARBON LOSS; SOIL DECOMPOSITION;

GLOBAL WARMING;

CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; GLOBAL WARMING;

CARBON DIOXIDE; DECAY; FERTILIZERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; SIMULATION; SOIL;

EID: 11844280849     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020904     Document Type: Article

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