Impact of fire on global land surface air temperature and energy budget for the 20th century due to changes within ecosystems

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2017, Pages

  Li, Fang ^a   Lawrence, David M ^b   Bond Lamberty, Ben ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

climate; earth system modeling; fire; global change; global energy budget; terrestrial ecosystems

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BUDGET CONTROL; CLIMATE CHANGE; EARTH (PLANET); ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; FIRES; LATENT HEAT; SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

CLIMATE; EARTH SYSTEM MODEL; GLOBAL CHANGE; GLOBAL ENERGY BUDGET; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS;

HEAT FLUX;

CLIMATE MODELING; DAMAGE; ENERGY BUDGET; FIRE; GLOBAL CHANGE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; LAND SURFACE; LATENT HEAT FLUX; NET RADIATION; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TERRESTRIAL DEPOSIT; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM;

EID: 85018502759     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/aa6685     Document Type: Article

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