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Levis et al. 1999
Levis, S., Foley, J.A. and Pollard, D. (1999). Potential high-latitude vegetation feedbacks on CO2-induced climate change. Geophysical Research Letters 26: doi: 10.1029/1999GL900107. issn: 0094-8276.

We use a fully coupled climate-vegetation model to examine the potential effects of changes in vegetation cover on simulations of CO2-induced climate change. We find that vegetation feedbacks, acting mainly through changes in surface albedo, enhance greenhouse warming in the northern high latitudes during spring and summer months. In spring and summer, land surfaces north of 45 ¿N are warmed by 3.3 and 1.7 ¿C by a doubling of CO2 alone; vegetation feedbacks produce an additional warming of between 1.1--1.6 and 0.4--0.5 ¿C, respectively. In winter, however, vegetation feedbacks appear to oppose the 5.6 ¿C radiative warming, particularly over Eurasia. These results demonstrate that vegetation feedbacks are potentially significant and must be included in assessments of anthropogenic climate change. ¿ 1999 American Geophysical Union

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Global Change, Global Change, Atmosphere (0315, 0325), Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics, Land/atmosphere interactions, Atmospheric Composition and Structure, Biosphere/atmosphere interactions
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