Investigating the climate impacts of global land cover change in the community climate system model

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 30, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 2066-2087

  Lawrence, Peter J ^a   Chase, Thomas N ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate modelling; Community climate system model; Land cover change; Potential vegetation

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE IMPACTS; CLIMATE MODELLING; CLIMATIC IMPACT; COMMUNITY CLIMATE SYSTEM MODEL; COMMUNITY LAND MODELS; FIELD STUDIES; GENERAL CIRCULATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; GLOBAL CLIMATES; GLOBAL IMPACTS; GLOBAL PRECIPITATION; LAND SURFACE PARAMETERS; LAND-COVER CHANGE; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; NEAR SURFACE TEMPERATURE; NEAR-SURFACE; NEW PARAMETERS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PLANT FUNCTIONAL TYPE; PLANT PHENOLOGY; POTENTIAL VEGETATION; RADIATIVE COOLING; RADIATIVE FORCINGS; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELLING; REGIONAL WARMING; SURFACE FLUX; SURFACE HYDROLOGY;

CLIMATE MODELS; EXPERIMENTS; FORESTRY; LANDFORMS; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; VEGETATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLOBAL CLIMATE; LAND COVER; LATENT HEAT FLUX; MODIS; RADIATIVE FORCING; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 77958569959     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.2061     Document Type: Article

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