Historical and future trends of the Sahara Desert

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 14, 2001, Pages 2683-2686

  Liu, Ping ^a   Washington, Warren M ^b   Meehl, Gerald A ^b   Wu, Guoxiong ^a   Potter, Gerald L ^c  

^a Laboratory of Atmospheric Sciences and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics   (China)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GASES; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; RAIN;

PARALLEL CLIMATIC MODEL (PCM);

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DESERT; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL; WARMING;

AFRICA;

EID: 0035878303     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001GL012883     Document Type: Article

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