Radiative forcing from anthropogenic land cover change since A.D. 800

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Pongratz, J ^a,b   Raddatz, T ^b   Reick, C H ^b   Esch, M ^b   Claussen, M ^b,c  

^a INTERNATIONAL MAX PLANCK RESEARCH SCHOOL ON EARTH SYSTEM MODELLING   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; IMPACT STRENGTH; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; SURFACE TENSION;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECTS; ANTHROPOGENIC IMPACTS; CLIMATE PROXIES; GLOBAL SCALE; GREENHOUSE-GAS FORCING; LAND-COVER CHANGES; RADIATIVE FORCING; REGIONAL SCALE; SURFACE ALBEDO CHANGES; SURFACE ENERGY BALANCES;

LANDFORMS;

ALBEDO; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; LAND COVER; RADIATIVE FORCING; RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 62749103362     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL036394     Document Type: Article

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