Effect of climate and CO2 changes on the greening of the Northern Hemisphere over the past two decades

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 23, 2006, Pages

  Piao, Shilong ^a   Friedlingstein, Pierre ^a   Ciais, Philippe ^a   Zhou, Liming ^b   Chen, Anping ^c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CARBON DIOXIDE; ECOSYSTEMS; GLOBAL WARMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOIL MOISTURE; VEGETATION;

ATMOSPHERIC CARBON DIOXIDE; FERTILIZATION; GREENING;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; GLOBAL WARMING; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; VEGETATION;

EURASIA; SIBERIA;

EID: 34548636472     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL028205     Document Type: Article

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