Contrasting local versus regional effects of land-use-change-induced heterogeneity on historical climate: Analysis with the GFDL earth system model

Journal of Climate

Volumn 28, Issue 13, 2015, Pages 5448-5469

  Malyshev, Sergey ^a   Shevliakova, Elena ^a   Stouffer, Ronald J ^b   Pacala, Stephen W ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELS; EARTH (PLANET); LAND USE;

AGRICULTURAL AREAS; EARTH SYSTEM MODEL; GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS LABORATORIES; HISTORICAL RECONSTRUCTION; LAND USE AND LAND COVER CHANGE; NEAR SURFACE TEMPERATURE; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; REGIONAL EFFECTS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; FLUID MECHANICS; HETEROGENEITY; LAND USE CHANGE; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84942048307     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00586.1     Document Type: Article

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