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https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-6-175-2015
© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Local sources of global climate forcing from different categories of land use activities
D. S. Ward
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
N. M. Mahowald
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
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- Denitrification, leaching, and river nitrogen export in the Community Earth System Model C. Nevison et al. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015MS000573
- Radiative Forcing of Climate: The Historical Evolution of the Radiative Forcing Concept, the Forcing Agents and their Quantification, and Applications V. Ramaswamy et al. https://doi.org/10.1175/AMSMONOGRAPHS-D-19-0001.1
- Variability of fire emissions on interannual to multi-decadal timescales in two Earth System models D. Ward et al. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/11/12/125008
- Impact on short-lived climate forcers increases projected warming due to deforestation C. Scott et al. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02412-4
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The radiative forcing of land use and land cover change activities has recently been computed for a set of forcing agents including long-lived greenhouse gases, short-lived agents (ozone and aerosols), and land surface albedo change. Here we address where the global forcing comes from and what land use activities, such as deforestation or agriculture, contribute the most forcing. We find that changes in forest and crop area can be used to predict the land use radiative forcing in some regions.
The radiative forcing of land use and land cover change activities has recently been computed...
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