Climate response to physiological forcing of carbon dioxide simulated by the coupled Community Atmosphere Model (CAM3.1) and Community Land Model (CLM3.0)

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Cao, Long ^a   Bala, Govindasamy ^b   Caldeira, Ken ^a   Nemani, Ramakrishna ^c   Ban Weiss, George ^a  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^c NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CO; CLIMATIC RESPONSE; COMMUNITY ATMOSPHERE MODEL; COMMUNITY LAND MODELS; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLES; INDIVIDUAL COMPONENTS; LAND SURFACE; MODEL CONTROL; MODELING STUDIES; PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS; REALISTIC SIMULATION; STOMATAL CONDUCTANCE;

CARBON DIOXIDE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GEOLOGIC MODELS; HYDRAULIC MODELS; SIMULATORS; TRANSPIRATION; WATER SUPPLY;

PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE FORCING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; STOMATAL CONDUCTANCE; TRANSPIRATION;

EID: 67651111677     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL037724     Document Type: Article

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