Effect of anthropogenic land-use and land-cover changes on climate and land carbon storage in CMIP5 projections for the twenty-first century

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 18, 2013, Pages 6859-6881

  Brovkin, V ^a   Boysen, L ^a   Arora, V K ^b   Boisier, J P ^c   Cadule, P ^c   Chini, L ^d   Claussen, M ^e   Friedlingstein, P ^f   Gayler, V ^a   Van den hurk, B J J M ^g   Hurtt, G C ^d   Jones, C D ^h   Kato, E ⁱ   De noblet ducoudre, N ^c   Pacifico, F ^f   Pongratz, J ^a   Weiss, M ^g  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^c LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^g ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^h MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MITIGATIONS; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; ENVIRONMENTAL MODEL; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH; LAND SURFACE ALBEDO; LAND USE AND LAND COVER CHANGE; SUBTROPICAL REGIONS; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES;

CLIMATOLOGY; EARTH (PLANET); LAND USE;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

EID: 84884217586     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00623.1     Document Type: Article

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