Assessing the benefits of crop albedo bio-geoengineering

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Singarayer, Joy S ^a   Ridgwell, Andy ^a   Irvine, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Albedo; Climate change; Crops; Geoengineering

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; GLOBAL WARMING; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYTOPLANKTON; SOIL MOISTURE; SOLAR RADIATION;

ALBEDO; CLIMATE MITIGATIONS; GEOENGINEERING; GLOBAL IMPACTS; GREENHOUSE FORCING; NATURAL CLIMATE VARIABILITIES; PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY; WARMING CLIMATE;

CROPS;

EID: 76149097889     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/4/4/045110     Document Type: Article

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