Simulated local and remote biophysical effects of afforestation over the Southeast United States in boreal summer

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 4511-4522

  Chen, Guang Shan ^a   Notaro, Michael ^a   Liu, Zhengyu ^a   Liu, Yongqiang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate models; Hydrologic models; Land surface model; Numerical analysis modeling

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; COMMUNITY CLIMATE SYSTEM MODEL; FULLY-COUPLED; HYDROLOGIC MODELS; INITIAL VALUES; LAKE STATES; LAND SURFACE MODELS; LOCAL COOLING; LOCAL EFFECTS; LOCAL SURFACES; MODEL RESULTS; QUASI-EQUILIBRIUM; REMOTE SURFACES; SOUTHEAST UNITED STATES; TIME-SCALES;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; BIOPHYSICS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE MODELS; EXPERIMENTS; WATER SUPPLY;

REFORESTATION;

AFFORESTATION; BIOPHYSICS; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; LAND SURFACE; LATENT HEAT FLUX; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SUMMER;

CORN BELT; GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; UNITED STATES;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84865188032     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00317.1     Document Type: Article

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