Effective radiative forcing from historical land use change

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 48, Issue 11-12, 2017, Pages 3489-3505

  Andrews, Timothy ^a   Betts, Richard A ^a   Booth, Ben B B ^a   Jones, Chris D ^a   Jones, Gareth S ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate model; Earth system; Global temperature change; Land use; Radiative forcing

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; GLOBAL CHANGE; LAND USE CHANGE; RADIATIVE FORCING; SEASONAL VARIATION;

EURASIA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 84982903346     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-016-3280-7     Document Type: Article

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