Terrestrial carbon cycle: Climate relations in eight CMIP5 earth system models

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 22, 2013, Pages 8744-8764

  Shao, Pu ^a,b   Zeng, Xubin ^b   Sakaguchi, Koichi ^b   Monson, Russell K ^b   Zeng, Xiaodong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic effects; Atmosphere land interaction; Biosphere atmosphere interaction; Carbon cycle; Ecological models; Model evaluation performance

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECTS; ATMOSPHERE-LAND INTERACTIONS; BIOSPHERE-ATMOSPHERE INTERACTIONS; CARBON CYCLES; ECOLOGICAL MODELS; MODEL EVALUATION/PERFORMANCE;

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTH (PLANET); ECOLOGY; SOIL MOISTURE;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ATMOSPHERE-BIOSPHERE INTERACTION; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON FLUX; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; CORRELATION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SOIL MOISTURE;

EID: 84888052621     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00831.1     Document Type: Article

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