Assessing 20th century climate-vegetation feedbacks of land-use change and natural vegetation dynamics in a fully coupled vegetation-climate model

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 30, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 2055-2065

  Strengers, Bart J ^a   Müller, Christoph ^a,b   Schaeffer, Michiel ^b,c   Haarsma, Reindert J ^d   Severijns, Camiel ^d   Gerten, Dieter ^b   Schaphoff, Sibyll ^b   Van Den Houdt, Roy ^a   Oostenrijk, Rineke ^a  

^a PBL NETHERLANDS ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^b POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Climate model; Climate vegetation feedbacks; Dynamic global vegetation model; Dynamic vegetation; Land use change; Model coupling

Indexed keywords

20TH CENTURY; ATMOSPHERIC GREENHOUSE; CLIMATE MODEL; CLIMATE-VEGETATION FEEDBACKS; CLOUD FORMATION; FULLY-COUPLED; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; LAND-USE CHANGE; LUND-POTSDAM-JENA MODELS; MODEL COUPLING; NATURAL VEGETATION; REGIONAL SCALE; SIMPLIFIED PARAMETERIZATIONS PRIMITIVE EQUATION DYNAMICS; SURFACE ALBEDO; VEGETATION FEEDBACKS; VEGETATION MODEL;

DYNAMIC MODELS; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; FORESTRY; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; LAND USE; VEGETATION; WATER SUPPLY;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ALBEDO; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; CLIMATE MODELING; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; LAND USE CHANGE; LATENT HEAT FLUX; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 77958545011     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.2132     Document Type: Article

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