Recent climatic change in the world's drylands

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 61-64

  Hulme, Mike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

ATMOSPHERIC DUST; CLIMATIC CHANGES; DRYLAND; LAND AREAS; NEGATIVE CORRELATION; TEMPERATURE TRENDS;

DRIERS (MATERIALS);

CLIMATE CHANGE; DRYLAND CLIMATE; POTENTIAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; PRECIPITATION; PRECIPITATION TREND; REGIONAL DESSICATION;

AFRICA, SAHEL;

EID: 0029729784     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/95GL03586     Document Type: Article

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