Land use and land cover distribution is a primary determinant of global carbon cycle projections and regional temperature projections


Alan V Di Vittorio1, Xiaoying Shi2, Ben P Bond-Lamberty3, Katherine V Calvin3 and Andrew D Jones4, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division and Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (3)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Joint Global Change Research Institute, Richland, WA, United States, (4)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Berkeley, United States