Fig. 3: Annual biophysical feedback from vegetation responses to idealized aerosol emission reductions.
From: Local biophysical climate feedback from vegetation responses to lower aerosol pollution
a Feedback on the near-surface air temperature (unit: °C). Feedback attributable to (unit: °C) LAI responses (b) and dT/dLAI responses (c), respectively. d The dominant driver of feedback, with blue denoting LAI responses and orange denoting dT/dLAI responses. In each panel, shading denotes the multimodel mean, and black dots denote where at least four out of the five models agree on the sign of the multimodel mean. In (a–c), embedded bar plots show regional averages across boreal (blue), temperate (gray), and tropical (orange) vegetated areas, with bars and error bars representing the multimodel mean and intermodel standard deviation, respectively. The results are derived from the comparison between the historical and hist-piNTCF simulations (hist-piNTCF minus historical) over 1985-2014.
