Fundamentals of climate change science

Understanding the Earth System: Global Change Science for Application

Volumn 9781107009363, Issue , 2009, Pages 39-71

  Prentice, I Colin ^a   Baines, Peter G ^b   Scholze, Marko ^c,d   Wooster, Martin J ^e  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^e KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; CARBON; CLIMATE MODELS; ECOSYSTEMS; LANDFORMS; VEGETATION;

CLIMATE OBSERVATIONS; CLIMATE SCIENCE; GLOBAL CARBON CYCLE; HIGH LATITUDES; HUMAN SOCIETY; SPATIAL PATTERNS; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS; TROPICAL FOREST;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84921931780     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511921155.005     Document Type: Chapter

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