Terrestrial biosphere carbon storage under alternative climate projections

Climatic Change

Volumn 74, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 97-122

  Schaphoff, Sibyll ^a   Lucht, Wolfgang ^a   Gerten, Dieter ^a   Sitch, Stephen ^a   Cramer, Wolfgang ^a   Prentice, I Colin ^b  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; FUEL STORAGE; VEGETATION;

CARBON STORAGE; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS (GCM); LUND-POTSDAM-JENA DYNAMIC GLOBAL VEGETATION MODEL (LPJ-DGVM); VEGETATION COMPOSITION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFOREST;

ATMOSPHERE; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATES;

AFRICA; CENTRAL AFRICA; SOUTH AMERICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 33646784000     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-005-9002-5     Document Type: Article

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