Impact of land use on Costa Rican tropical montane cloud forests: Sensitivity of cumulus cloud field characteristics to lowland deforestation

Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres

Volumn 108, Issue 7, 2003, Pages

  Nair, U S ^a   Lawton, R O ^a   Welch, R M ^a   Pielke Sr , R A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^b Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Climatic influence of land use; Cloud base height; Cumulus clouds; Deforestation; Mesoscale modeling; Tropical montane cloud forests

Indexed keywords

CLOUD FOREST; CUMULUS; DEFORESTATION; LAND USE;

CENTRAL AMERICA; COSTA RICA;

EID: 0346461695     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001jd001135     Document Type: Article

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