Biophysical climate impacts of recent changes in global forest cover

Local cooling and warming effects of forests based on satellite observations

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The implications for climate sensitivity of AR5 forcing and heat uptake estimates

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Response of surface air temperature to small-scale land clearing across latitudes

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Determination of tropical deforestation rates and related carbon losses from 1990 to 2010

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Afforestation in China cools local land surface temperature

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Land management and land-cover change have impacts of similar magnitude on surface temperature

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Biophysical forcings of land-use changes from potential forestry activities in North America

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Vegetation controls on northern high latitude snow-albedo feedback: observations and CMIP5 model simulations

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High-Resolution Global Maps of 21st-Century Forest Cover Change

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Comparison of Satellite-Derived Land Surface Temperature and Air Temperature from Meteorological Stations on the Pan-Arctic Scale

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Determining Robust Impacts of Land-Use-Induced Land Cover Changes on Surface Climate over North America and Eurasia: Results from the First Set of LUCID Experiments

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Evaluation of vegetation cover and land-surface albedo in MPI-ESM CMIP5 simulations

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Climate forcing and response to idealized changes in surface latent and sensible heat

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Observed increase in local cooling effect of deforestation at higher latitudes

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A Large and Persistent Carbon Sink in the World's Forests

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Contrasting response of European forest and grassland energy exchange to heatwaves

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Uncertainties in climate responses to past land cover change: First results from the LUCID intercomparison study

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Is the airborne fraction of anthropogenic CO2emissions increasing?

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Climatic Impact of Global-Scale Deforestation: Radiative versus Nonradiative Processes

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Evaluation of MODIS land surface temperature data to estimate air temperature in different ecosystems over Africa

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Forests and Climate Change: Forcings, Feedbacks, and the Climate Benefits of Forests

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