Land cover, rainfall and land-surface albedo in West Africa

Climatic Change

Volumn 54, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 181-204

  Fuller, Douglas O ^a   Ottke, Christian ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORESTATION; LAND USE; POPULATION STATISTICS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

LAND COVERS;

RAIN;

ALBEDO; CLIMATE CHANGE; DESERTIFICATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; LAND COVER; RAINFALL;

AFRICA;

EID: 0036290029     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1015730900622     Document Type: Article

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