Can crop albedo be increased through the modification of leaf trichomes, and could this cool regional climate?

Climatic Change

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 379-387

  Doughty, Christopher E ^a   Field, Christopher B ^a   McMillan, Andrew M S ^b  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; CROPS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATIC EFFECTS; COMMUNITY ATMOSPHERE MODEL; COMMUNITY LAND MODELS; HIGH LATITUDES; LAND SURFACE ALBEDO; REGIONAL CLIMATE; REGIONAL WARMING;

SOLAR RADIATION;

GLYCINE MAX;

EID: 78651243691     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-010-9936-0     Document Type: Letter

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