Accounting for radiative forcing from albedo change in future global land-use scenarios

Climatic Change

Volumn 131, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 691-703

  Jones, Andrew D ^a   Calvin, Katherine V ^b   Collins, William D ^a,c   Edmonds, James ^b  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; BIOFUELS; CROPS; DEFORESTATION; FORESTRY; FOSSIL FUELS; LAND USE; REFORESTATION; SOLAR RADIATION; VEGETATION;

ASSESSMENT MODELS; EARTH SYSTEM MODEL; EMISSIONS REDUCTION; FOSSIL FUEL EMISSIONS; INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT MODELS; LAND USE AND LAND COVER CHANGE; RADIATION ENVIRONMENTS; RADIATIVE FORCINGS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AFFORESTATION; ALBEDO; ASSESSMENT METHOD; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; COOLING; CROP YIELD; ENERGY CROP; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; FOSSIL FUEL; GLOBAL WARMING; LAND USE CHANGE; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADIATIVE FORCING; SHRUB; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

EID: 84937512797     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: 15731480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-015-1411-5     Document Type: Article

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