The earth system feedbacks that matter for contemporary climate

Understanding the Earth System: Global Change Science for Application

Volumn 9781107009363, Issue , 2009, Pages 102-128

  Friedlingstein, Pierre ^a   Gallego Sala, Angela V ^a   Blyth, Eleanor M ^b   Hewer, Fiona E ^c   Seneviratne, Sonia I ^d   Spessa, Allan ^e   Suntharalingam, Parvadha ^f   Scholze, Marko ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE;

BIOGEOCHEMICAL; CLIMATE FORCINGS; CLIMATIC CHANGES; EARTH SYSTEMS; FEEDBACK PROCESS; FUTURE CLIMATE; OBSERVATIONAL DATA;

EARTH (PLANET);

EID: 84928051366     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511921155.007     Document Type: Chapter

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