Historical warming reduced due to enhanced land carbon uptake

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 42, 2013, Pages 16730-16735

  Shevliakova, Elena ^a   Stouffer, Ronald J ^b   Malyshev, Sergey ^a   Krasting, John P ^b   Hurtt, George C ^c   Pacala, Stephen W ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon sink; Climate change; Earth system modeling

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; CARBON SINK; CARBON SOURCE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROPLAND; EARTH SYSTEM MODEL; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GREENHOUSE GAS; HISTORICAL PERIOD; LAND USE; LAND USE CHANGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; VEGETATION GROWTH;

CARBON SINK; CLIMATE CHANGE; EARTH SYSTEM MODELING;

ATMOSPHERE; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; GLOBAL WARMING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PLANTS;

EID: 84885823468     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1314047110     Document Type: Article

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