Coupled climate-carbon simulations indicate minor global effects of wars and epidemics on atmospheric CO 2 between ad 800 and 1850

Holocene

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 843-851

  Pongratz, Julia ^a   Caldeira, Ken ^a   Reick, Christian H ^b   Claussen, Martin ^b,c  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Carbon cycle; Climate; Historic events; Land cover change; Land use; Last millennium

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EPIDEMIC; HISTORICAL RECORD; ICE CORE; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; PALEOATMOSPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; RECONSTRUCTION; REGROWTH; WAR;

INDICATOR MINOR;

EID: 79960854164     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683610386981     Document Type: Article

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