Understanding climate sensitivity to tropical deforestation in a mechanistic model

Journal of Climate

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1969-1975

  Zeng, Ning ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate forcing; Deforestation

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE FORCING; DEFORESTATION;

EID: 0032469601     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442-11.8.1969     Document Type: Article

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