Time scales of terrestrial carbon response related to land-use application: Implications for initializing an earth system model

Earth Interactions

Volumn 15, Issue 30, 2011, Pages 1-16

  Sentman, Lori T ^a   Shevliakova, Elena ^b   Stouffer, Ronald J ^a   Malyshev, Sergey ^b  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Land use; Terrestrial carbon

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857006540     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: 10873562     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011EI401.1     Document Type: Article

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