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Title: Human-induced greening of the northern extratropical land surface

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  1. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Environmental Sciences Division and Climate Change Science Inst.
  2. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Toulouse (France). Meteorology-Atmosphere Study Group
  3. Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX (United States). Jackson School of Geosciences
  4. Lab. of Climate and Environmental Sciences (LSCE), Gif sur Yvette (France)
  5. Boston Univ., MA (United States). Dept. of Earth and Environment
  6. Peking Univ., Beijing (China). Sino-French Inst. for Earth System Science, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences
  7. Beijing Normal Univ. (China). College of Global Change and Earth System Science
  8. Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States). Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering
  9. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Computer Science and Mathematics Division and Climate Change Science Inst.
  10. State Key Lab of Numerical Modeling for Atmospheric Sciences and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Beijing (China). Inst. of Atmospheric Physics; Tsinghua Univ., Beijing (China). Center for Earth System Science
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF)
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USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER); National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); National Basic Research Program of China
OSTI Identifier:
1348296
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OSTI ID: 1429189
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC05-00OR22725; 641816; 2014CB441302; 610028
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Nature Climate Change
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 6; Journal Issue: 10; Journal ID: ISSN 1758-678X
Publisher:
Nature Publishing Group
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

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Mao, Jiafu, Ribes, Aurélien, Yan, Binyan, Shi, Xiaoying, Thornton, Peter E., Séférian, Roland, Ciais, Philippe, Myneni, Ranga B., Douville, Hervé, Piao, Shilong, Zhu, Zaichun, Dickinson, Robert E., Dai, Yongjiu, Ricciuto, Daniel M., Jin, Mingzhou, Hoffman, Forrest M., Wang, Bin, Huang, Mengtian, and Lian, Xu. Human-induced greening of the northern extratropical land surface. United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.1038/nclimate3056.
Mao, Jiafu, Ribes, Aurélien, Yan, Binyan, Shi, Xiaoying, Thornton, Peter E., Séférian, Roland, Ciais, Philippe, Myneni, Ranga B., Douville, Hervé, Piao, Shilong, Zhu, Zaichun, Dickinson, Robert E., Dai, Yongjiu, Ricciuto, Daniel M., Jin, Mingzhou, Hoffman, Forrest M., Wang, Bin, Huang, Mengtian, & Lian, Xu. Human-induced greening of the northern extratropical land surface. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate3056
Mao, Jiafu, Ribes, Aurélien, Yan, Binyan, Shi, Xiaoying, Thornton, Peter E., Séférian, Roland, Ciais, Philippe, Myneni, Ranga B., Douville, Hervé, Piao, Shilong, Zhu, Zaichun, Dickinson, Robert E., Dai, Yongjiu, Ricciuto, Daniel M., Jin, Mingzhou, Hoffman, Forrest M., Wang, Bin, Huang, Mengtian, and Lian, Xu. Mon . "Human-induced greening of the northern extratropical land surface". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate3056. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1348296.
@article{osti_1348296,
title = {Human-induced greening of the northern extratropical land surface},
author = {Mao, Jiafu and Ribes, Aurélien and Yan, Binyan and Shi, Xiaoying and Thornton, Peter E. and Séférian, Roland and Ciais, Philippe and Myneni, Ranga B. and Douville, Hervé and Piao, Shilong and Zhu, Zaichun and Dickinson, Robert E. and Dai, Yongjiu and Ricciuto, Daniel M. and Jin, Mingzhou and Hoffman, Forrest M. and Wang, Bin and Huang, Mengtian and Lian, Xu},
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doi = {10.1038/nclimate3056},
journal = {Nature Climate Change},
number = 10,
volume = 6,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Jun 27 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Mon Jun 27 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}

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