Downscaling global land cover projections from an integrated assessment model for use in regional analyses: Results and evaluation for the US from 2005 to 2095

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  West, Tristram O ^a   Le Page, Yannick ^a   Huang, Maoyi ^a   Wolf, Julie ^a   Thomson, Allison M ^a  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

earth system model; ecological forecasting; gridded future projections; land cover realizations; regional climate impacts

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; EARTH (PLANET); ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FORESTRY; RADIOMETERS; RAIN; REGIONAL PLANNING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; VEGETATION;

EARTH SYSTEM MODEL; ECOLOGICAL FORECASTING; FUTURE PROJECTIONS; LAND COVER; REGIONAL CLIMATE;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; FORECASTING METHOD; INTEGRATED APPROACH; LAND COVER; LAND USE PLANNING; MODIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

ECONOMICS; FORESTRY; PLANTS; RAIN;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84903640502     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/9/6/064004     Document Type: Article

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