ateam - Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
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ATEAM final report Section 5 and 6 (2001-2004) 117<br />
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Figure 30. Changes in vegetation carbon storage (kg C m -2 ) <strong>for</strong> the Saltina catchment at the four time<br />
slices of ATEAM <strong>for</strong> the A1f HadCM3 scenario. Dark green colours show a change in land use from<br />
grass to <strong>for</strong>est, dark red colours show areas where <strong>for</strong>ests were converted into grassland.<br />
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Figure 31. Changes in vegetation carbon storage (g C m -2 ) in five mountain catchments (averages over<br />
the entire catchment) <strong>for</strong> the four time slices of ATEAM. The thick line gives the average vegetation<br />
carbon storage of the seven different scenarios. The blue area shows the maximum and minimum of the<br />
seven scenarios.