Tropical deforestation and climate change

Progress in Physical Geography

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 311-335

  O'Brien, Karen L ^a,b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Commn for Environmental Cooperation ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate change; General circulation models; Tropical deforestation

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC IMPACT; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEFORESTATION; GCM; RAINFOREST;

EID: 0030437673     PISSN: 03091333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/030913339602000304     Document Type: Article

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