From land use to land cover: Restoring the afforestation signal in a coupled integrated assessment-earth system model and the implications for CMIP5 RCP simulations

Biogeosciences

Volumn 11, Issue 22, 2014, Pages 6435-6450

  Di Vittorio, A V ^a   Chini, L P ^b   Bond Lamberty, B ^c   Mao, J ^d   Shi, X ^d   Truesdale, J ^a   Craig, A ^a   Calvin, K ^c   Jones, A ^a   Collins, W D ^a   Edmonds, J ^c   Hurtt, G C ^b   Thornton, P ^d   Thomson, A ^c  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFFORESTATION; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; GLOBAL CHANGE; GRASSLAND; INTEGRATED APPROACH; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; SHRUBLAND; SIGNAL;

EID: 84908646737     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-11-6435-2014     Document Type: Article

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