Positive feedbacks of fire, climate, and vegetation and the conversion of tropical savanna

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 22, 2002, Pages 9-1

  Hoffman, William A ^a   Schroeder, Wilfrid ^b   Jackson, Robert B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

^b Inst Brasileiro do Meio Ambiente   (Brazil)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Fire; Fire meteorology; GCM modeling; Remote sensing; Savanna

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; FIRES; FORESTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELING (GCM);

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE FEEDBACK; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; FIRE; SAVANNA; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

FIRES; FORESTRY; HUMIDITY; METEOROLOGY; PLANTS;

EID: 0037113533     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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