Forest Cover Model Results

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This figure appears in the Our Changing Planet: The U.S. Global Change Research Program for Fiscal Year 2012 report.

Testing early results from "Experiment 0" of an Integrated Earth Systems Model. Preliminary studies illustrate the significance of potential carbon management strategies when land is considered within an Integrated Earth System Model. In the case where only fossil fuel carbon is valued (above of two forest cover images), a shift toward deforestation occurs in comparison with the IPCC Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP) case.

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