Combined climate and carbon-cycle effects of large-scale deforestation
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory · Carnegie Institution for Science · +3 more institutions
Abstract
The prevention of deforestation and promotion of afforestation have often been cited as strategies to slow global warming. Deforestation releases CO(2) to the atmosphere, which exerts a warming influence on Earth's climate. However, biophysical effects of deforestation, which include changes in land surface albedo, evapotranspiration, and cloud cover also affect climate. Here we present results from several large-scale deforestation experiments performed with a three-dimensional coupled global carbon-cycle and climate model. These simulations were performed by using a fully three-dimensional model representing physical and biogeochemical interactions among land, atmosphere, and ocean. We find that global-scale…
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7Topics & keywords
- Deforestation (computer science)
- Carbon cycle
- Environmental science
- Scale (ratio)
- Carbon fibers
- Climate change
- Climatology
- Atmospheric sciences
- Climate action