Abstract: Increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration and the resulting change in temperature affect vegetation physiologically and structurally. These physiological and structural changes are biospheric feedbacks that may ...

Abstract: The evidence in support of global warming and the lack of significant published evidence to the contrary provides an extraordinarily strong foundation for the scientific community's call for action on greenhouse gas ...

Abstract: and?atmosphere coupling can strongly affect climate and climate extremes. Estimates of land?atmosphere coupling vary considerably between climate models, between different measures used to define coupling, and between the ...

Abstract: limate change impact studies for water resource applications, such as the development of projections of reservoir yields or the assessment of likely frequency and amplitude of drought under a future climate, require that ...

Abstract: AbstractUnderstanding the physical drivers of heat waves is essential for improving short-term forecasts of individual events and long-term projections of heat waves under climate change. This study provides the first ...

Abstract: The atmospheric and land components of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory?s (GFDL?s) Climate Model version 2.1 (CM2.1) is used with climatological sea surface temperatures (SSTs) to investigate the relative climatic ...

Abstract: Using a coupled atmosphere?land surface model, simulations were conducted to characterize the regional climate changes that result from the response of stomates to increases in leaf-level carbon dioxide (CO2) under differing ...

Abstract: AbstractChina is several decades into large-scale afforestation programs to help address significant ecological and environmental degradation, with further afforestation planned for the future. However, the biophysical ...

Abstract: The Project for the Intercomparison of Land-Surface Parameterization Schemes (PILPS) aims to improve understanding and modeling of land surface processes. PILPS phase 2(d) uses a set of meteorological and hydrological data ...

Abstract: From 30 September to 2 October 1999 a workshop was held in Gif?sur?Yvette, France, with the central objective to develop a research strategy for the next 3?5 years, aiming at a systematic description of root functioning, ...