Vegetation controls on northern high latitude snow-albedo feedback: Observations and CMIP5 model simulations

Global Change Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 594-606

  Loranty, Michael M ^a,b   Berner, Logan T ^a   Goetz, Scott J ^a   Jin, Yufang ^c   Randerson, James T ^c  

^a WOODS HOLE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Colgate University ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Albedo; Arctic; Boreal forest; Climate feedback; CMIP5; Global change; Vegetation cover

Indexed keywords

ALBEDO; ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; BOREAL FOREST; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; CLIMATE MODELING; GLOBAL CHANGE; SNOW; VEGETATION COVER;

ARCTIC;

SNOW;

ALBEDO; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; CMIP5; ECOSYSTEM; GLOBAL CHANGE; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; REMOTE SENSING; TAIGA; THEORETICAL MODEL; VEGETATION COVER;

ALBEDO; ARCTIC; BOREAL FOREST; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; CMIP5; GLOBAL CHANGE; VEGETATION COVER;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PLANT PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESSES; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY; SNOW;

EID: 84891664957     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12391     Document Type: Article

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