Frost followed the plow: Impacts of deforestation on the climate of the United States

Ecological Applications

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1305-1315

  Bonan, Gordon B ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric general circulation model; Biosphere model; Climate change; Deforestation; Land surface processes; Land use; Land atmosphere interactions

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; COOLING; DEFORESTATION;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032697651     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(1999)009[1305:FFTPIO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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