The effect on regional and global climate of expansion of the world's deserts

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 122, Issue 530, 1996, Pages 451-482

  Dirmeyer, Paul A ^a   Shukla, J ^a  

^a Ctr Ocean Land Atmosphere Studs   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climate modelling; Desertification; Regional climate sensitivity

Indexed keywords

ALBEDO; ANOMALY INTEGRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DESERT EXPANSION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

EID: 0029667205     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/smsqj.53007     Document Type: Article

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