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Traces of urban forest in temperature and CO2 signals in monsoon East Asia
Keunmin Lee
Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Yonsei University, Seoul, 03722, Republic of Korea
Je-Woo Hong
Korea Adaptation Center for Climate Change, Korea Environment Institute, Sejong, 30147, Republic of Korea
Jeongwon Kim
Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Yonsei University, Seoul, 03722, Republic of Korea
Sungsoo Jo
Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Yonsei University, Seoul, 03722, Republic of Korea
Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Yonsei University, Seoul, 03722, Republic of Korea
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This study examine two benefits of urban forest, thermal mitigation and carbon uptake. Our analysis indicates that the urban forest reduces both the warming trend and urban heat island intensity. Urban forest is a net CO2 source despite larger photosynthetic carbon uptake because of strong contribution of ecosystem respiration, which can be attributed to the substantial amount of soil organic carbon by intensive historical soil use and warm temperature in a city.
This study examine two benefits of urban forest, thermal mitigation and carbon uptake. Our...
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