Regional climate impacts of a biofuels policy projection

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1217-1222

  Anderson, Christopher J ^a   Anex, Robert P ^b   Arritt, Raymond W ^a   Gelder, Brian K ^c   Khanal, Sami ^b   Herzmann, Daryl E ^a   Gassman, Phillip W ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^c Iowa State University of Science and Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

biofuels; regional climate change

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND USE; AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION SYSTEM; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; BIOFUEL PRODUCTION; HIGHER RELATIVE HUMIDITY; INCREASE PRODUCTIONS; REGIONAL CLIMATE CHANGES; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS;

BIOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; CROPS; ECONOMICS; FORESTRY; LAND USE; PRODUCTIVITY; SOIL MOISTURE;

BIOFUELS;

AGRICULTURAL POLICY; BIOFUEL; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CROP PRODUCTION; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; GRASS; LAND USE CHANGE; LOW TEMPERATURE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHENOLOGY; POLICY MAKING; REGIONAL CLIMATE; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL WATER;

GREAT PLAINS; KANSAS; OKLAHOMA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

PANICUM VIRGATUM;

EID: 84876888405     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50179     Document Type: Article

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