Vegetation-based climate mitigation in a warmer and greener World

Vegetation changes have been suggested as a climate mitigation option, but the numerous feedbacks between vegetation and climate are not well understood. Here, the authors show that greening leads to surface cooling in many areas, but the size of the effect depends on the background climate.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ramdane Alkama, Giovanni Forzieri, Gregory Duveiller, Giacomo Grassi, Shunlin Liang, Alessandro Cescatti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-02-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28305-9