Afforestation in China cools local land surface temperature

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

Volumn 111, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 2915-2919

  Peng, Shu Shi ^a   Piao, Shilong ^a,b   Zeng, Zhenzhong ^a   Ciais, Philippe ^c   Zhou, Liming ^d   Li, Laurent Z X ^e   Myneni, Ranga B ^f   Yin, Yi ^a   Zeng, Hui ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

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

^d STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^e CNRS   (France)

^f BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change mitigation; Plantation effects; Surface cooling; Vegetation feedback

Indexed keywords

AFFORESTATION; ALBEDO; ARTICLE; BOUNDARY LAYER; CARBON SINK; CARBON STORAGE; CHINA; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CROPLAND; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FOREST; GRASSLAND; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; LAND USE; PLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL MOISTURE; SOLAR RADIATION; SURFACE PROPERTY; VEGETATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION; PLANTATION EFFECTS; SURFACE COOLING; VEGETATION FEEDBACK;

CHINA; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PLANT TRANSPIRATION; TEMPERATURE; TREES;

EID: 84896835710     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1315126111     Document Type: Article

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