Site-specific global warming potentials of biogenic CO2 for bioenergy: Contributions from carbon fluxes and albedo dynamics

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Cherubini, Francesco ^a   Bright, Ryan M ^a   Strømman, Anders H ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOMASS; DYNAMICS; FORESTRY; GLOBAL WARMING; LAND USE; SOLAR RADIATION;

ATMOSPHERIC CARBON DIOXIDE; BIOMASS PRODUCTIONS; GLOBAL WARMING POTENTIAL; LAND USE DISTURBANCES; SCIENTIFIC DEVELOPMENT; SEASONAL SNOW COVER; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL MODELING; SURFACE REFLECTIVITY;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

ALBEDO; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; BIOENERGY; BIOGENIC EMISSION; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; BIOMASS; CARBON FLUX; CLIMATE FORCING; DISTURBANCE; ENERGY CROP; GLOBAL WARMING; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; LAND SURFACE; LAND USE CHANGE; PERTURBATION; PLANTATION; POLICY MAKING; SURFACE REFLECTANCE;

EID: 84881194062     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/7/4/045902     Document Type: Article

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