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DOI	10.1038/s41467-021-24551-5
	Revealing the widespread potential of forests to increase low level cloud cover
	Duveiller G.; Filipponi F.; Ceglar A.; Bojanowski J.; Alkama R.; Cescatti A.
发表日期	2021
ISSN	2041-1723
卷号	12 期号:1
英文摘要	Forests play a key role in humanity’s current challenge to mitigate climate change thanks to their capacity to sequester carbon. Preserving and expanding forest cover is considered essential to enhance this carbon sink. However, changing the forest cover can further affect the climate system through biophysical effects. One such effect that is seldom studied is how afforestation can alter the cloud regime, which can potentially have repercussions on the hydrological cycle, the surface radiation budget and on planetary albedo itself. Here we provide a global scale assessment of this effect derived from satellite remote sensing observations. We show that for 67% of sampled areas across the world, afforestation would increase low level cloud cover, which should have a cooling effect on the planet. We further reveal a dependency of this effect on forest type, notably in Europe where needleleaf forests generate more clouds than broadleaf forests. © 2021, The Author(s).
语种	英语
scopus关键词	broad-leaved forest; carbon sequestration; carbon sink; climate change; cloud cover; forest; mitigation; remote sensing; satellite altimetry; afforestation; albedo; article; budget; cooling; Europe; forest; remote sensing; Europe
来源期刊	Nature Communications
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/250653
作者单位	European Commission Joint Research Centre, Ispra (VA), Italy; Remote Sensing Centre, Institute of Geodesy and Cartography, Warsaw, Poland; Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany; Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA), Roma, Italy
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Duveiller G.,Filipponi F.,Ceglar A.,et al. Revealing the widespread potential of forests to increase low level cloud cover[J],2021,12(1).
APA	Duveiller G.,Filipponi F.,Ceglar A.,Bojanowski J.,Alkama R.,&Cescatti A..(2021).Revealing the widespread potential of forests to increase low level cloud cover.Nature Communications,12(1).
MLA	Duveiller G.,et al."Revealing the widespread potential of forests to increase low level cloud cover".Nature Communications 12.1(2021).