Radiative forcing over the conterminous United States due to contemporary land cover land use change and sensitivity to snow and interannual albedo variability

Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences

Volumn 115, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Barnes, Christopher A ^a   Roy, David P ^a  

^a SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBEDO; ANNUAL VARIATION; DATA ASSIMILATION; ECOREGION; ESTIMATION METHOD; GRASS; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; MAGNITUDE; RADIATIVE FORCING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SHRUB; SNOW; SOLAR RADIATION;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 78650014082     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JG001428     Document Type: Article

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