Biogeochemical carbon coupling influences global precipitation in geoengineering experiments

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 651-655

  Fyfe, J C ^a   Cole, J N S ^a   Arora, V K ^a   Scinocca, J F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Geoengineering; global precipitation; solar radiation management

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE MODELS; EXPERIMENTS; GLOBAL WARMING; LASERS; PLANTS (BOTANY); PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SOLAR RADIATION; SUN;

BIOGEOCHEMICAL INTERACTIONS; EARTH SYSTEM MODEL; EVAPORATIVE PROCESS; GEOENGINEERING; GLOBAL PRECIPITATION; LEAVES OF PLANTS; PRIMARY EFFECTS; RADIATION MANAGEMENT;

CARBON;

CARBON CYCLE; CLIMATE MODELING; EVAPORATION; GLOBAL CHANGE; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); SOLAR RADIATION; TRANSPIRATION; TREE;

EID: 84878174919     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50166     Document Type: Article

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