Nature Communications (Jan 2023)

Biophysical impacts of earth greening can substantially mitigate regional land surface temperature warming

  • Yitao Li,
  • Zhao-Liang Li,
  • Hua Wu,
  • Chenghu Zhou,
  • Xiangyang Liu,
  • Pei Leng,
  • Peng Yang,
  • Wenbin Wu,
  • Ronglin Tang,
  • Guo-Fei Shang,
  • Lingling Ma

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-35799-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Using satellite observations over the recent two decades, the authors quantify the biophysical impact of earth greening on land surface temperature and show a considerable cooling effect in India and China, important for climate mitigation.