Modelling the role of fires in the terrestrial carbon balance by incorporating SPITFIRE into the global vegetation model ORCHIDEE -Part 2: Carbon emissions and the role of fires in the global carbon balance

Geoscientific Model Development

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1321-1338

  Yue, C ^a,b   Ciais, P ^b   Cadule, P ^b   Thonicke, K ^c   Van Leeuwen, T T ^d,e  

^a CNRS   (France)

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

^c POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d SRON NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SPACE RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^e UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CARBON BALANCE; CARBON EMISSION; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; EL NINO; GLOBAL CHANGE; LAND COVER; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM;

EID: 84928943741     PISSN: 1991959X     EISSN: 19919603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/gmd-8-1321-2015     Document Type: Article

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