Responses of global terrestrial evapotranspiration to climate change and increasing atmospheric CO2 in the 21st century

Earth's Future

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 15-35

  Pan, Shufen ^a   Tian, Hanqin ^a   Dangal, Shree R S ^a   Yang, Qichun ^a   Yang, Jia ^a   Lu, Chaoqun ^a   Tao, Bo ^a   Ren, Wei ^a   Ouyang, Zhiyun ^b  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RESEARCH CENTER FOR ECO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

climate change; evapotranspiration; terrestrial ecosystem modeling; terrestrial ecosystems

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GLOBAL WARMING; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; POPULATION DECLINE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STOMATAL CONDUCTANCE; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

AFRICA; ARCTIC; ASIA; AUSTRALIA; GREENLAND; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 85000428351     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23284277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014EF000263     Document Type: Article

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