Human-induced greening of the northern extratropical land surface

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

doi:10.1038/nclimate3056

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

Journal Article · Mon Jun 27 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · Nature Climate Change

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate3056· OSTI ID:1348296

Mao, Jiafu ^[1]; Ribes, Aurélien ^[2]; Yan, Binyan ^[3]; Shi, Xiaoying ^[1];

^[1]; Séférian, Roland ^[2]; Ciais, Philippe ^[4]; Myneni, Ranga B. ^[5]; Douville, Hervé ^[2]; Piao, Shilong ^[6]; Zhu, Zaichun ^[6]; Dickinson, Robert E. ^[3];

^[7];

^[1]; Jin, Mingzhou ^[8]; Hoffman, Forrest M. ^[9]; Wang, Bin ^[10]; Huang, Mengtian ^[6]; Lian, Xu ^[6]

Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Environmental Sciences Division and Climate Change Science Inst.
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Toulouse (France). Meteorology-Atmosphere Study Group
Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX (United States). Jackson School of Geosciences
Lab. of Climate and Environmental Sciences (LSCE), Gif sur Yvette (France)
Boston Univ., MA (United States). Dept. of Earth and Environment
Peking Univ., Beijing (China). Sino-French Inst. for Earth System Science, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences
Beijing Normal Univ. (China). College of Global Change and Earth System Science
Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States). Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Computer Science and Mathematics Division and Climate Change Science Inst.
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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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER); National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); National Basic Research Program of China

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725; 641816; 2014CB441302; 610028

OSTI ID:: 1348296

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1429189

Journal Information:: Nature Climate Change, Vol. 6, Issue 10; ISSN 1758-678X

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