Nature Communications (Jan 2018)
Impact on short-lived climate forcers increases projected warming due to deforestation
- C. E. Scott,
- S. A. Monks,
- D. V. Spracklen,
- S. R. Arnold,
- P. M. Forster,
- A. Rap,
- M. Äijälä,
- P. Artaxo,
- K. S. Carslaw,
- M. P. Chipperfield,
- M. Ehn,
- S. Gilardoni,
- L. Heikkinen,
- M. Kulmala,
- T. Petäjä,
- C. L. S. Reddington,
- L. V. Rizzo,
- E. Swietlicki,
- E. Vignati,
- C. Wilson
Affiliations
- C. E. Scott
- Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds
- S. A. Monks
- Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado
- D. V. Spracklen
- Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds
- S. R. Arnold
- Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds
- P. M. Forster
- Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds
- A. Rap
- Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds
- M. Äijälä
- Department of Physics, University of Helsinki
- P. Artaxo
- Institute of Physics, University of Sao Paulo
- K. S. Carslaw
- Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds
- M. P. Chipperfield
- Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds
- M. Ehn
- Department of Physics, University of Helsinki
- S. Gilardoni
- National Research Council, Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate
- L. Heikkinen
- Department of Physics, University of Helsinki
- M. Kulmala
- Department of Physics, University of Helsinki
- T. Petäjä
- Department of Physics, University of Helsinki
- C. L. S. Reddington
- Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds
- L. V. Rizzo
- Department of Earth and Exact Sciences, Institute of Environmental, Chemical and Pharmaceutics Sciences, Federal University of Sao Paulo, UNIFESP
- E. Swietlicki
- Division of Nuclear Physics, Lund University
- E. Vignati
- European Commission, Joint Research Center, Directorate for Energy Transport and Climate
- C. Wilson
- Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02412-4
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 9,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 9
Abstract
The climate impacts of deforestation due to changes in biogenic volatile organic compound emissions, which act as short-lived climate forcers (SLCFs), are poorly understood. Here the authors show that including the impact SLCFs increases the projected warming associated with idealised deforestation scenarios.
