Climate impacts of environmental degradation in Sudan

GeoJournal

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 311-327

  Elagib, N A ^a   Mansell, M G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aridity; Climate variability; Climatic changes; Environmental degradation; Sudan

Indexed keywords

DEGRADATION; DRYING; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; HIGH TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; RAIN; VEGETATION;

CLIMATIC PATTERN;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FORCING; DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION;

SUDAN;

EID: 0034446655     PISSN: 03432521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1011071917001     Document Type: Article

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