Climate impacts of a large-scale biofuels expansion

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1624-1630

  Hallgren, Willow ^a   Schlosser, C Adam ^a   Monier, Erwan ^a   Kicklighter, David ^b   Sokolov, Andrei ^a   Melillo, Jerry ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b ECOSYSTEMS CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

biofuels; climate impacts; Land use

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE IMPACTS; GLOBAL MEAN SURFACE TEMPERATURE; INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT MODELS; LAND-USE STRATEGIES; REGIONAL IMPACTS; SECOND GENERATION; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TERRESTRIAL BIOGEOCHEMISTRIES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BIOFUELS; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; EARTH (PLANET); ECONOMICS; FORESTRY; GREENHOUSE GASES; LAND USE; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

CLIMATE MODELS;

BIOENERGY; BIOFUEL; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CLIMATE EFFECT; ENERGY FLUX; GLOBAL CLIMATE; LAND USE PLANNING; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

BIOCHEMISTRY; CLIMATES; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; FORESTRY; FORESTS; FUELS; GEOCHEMISTRY; GREENHOUSE GASES; LAND USE; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

AMAZON BASIN; CONGO BASIN;

EID: 84877941050     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50352     Document Type: Article

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