The response to deforestation and desertification in a model of West African monsoons

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 155-158

  Zheng, Xinyu ^a   Eltahir, Elfatih A B ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; FORESTRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RAIN; SIMULATION;

DEFORESTATION; DESERTIFICATION; LAND COVER; MONSOONS; VEGETATION;

GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING;

CLIMATE IMPACT; DEFORESTATION; DESERTIFICATION; MONSOON; RAINFALL;

AFRICA, (WEST);

EID: 0030710479     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL03925     Document Type: Article

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