The impact of Amazonian deforestation on dry season rainfall

Journal of Climate

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1306-1319

  Negri, Andrew J ^a   Adler, Robert F ^a   Xu, Liming ^b   Surratt, Jason ^c  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; DEFORESTATION; ESTIMATION; FORESTRY; HEAT CONVECTION; METEOROLOGICAL PROBLEMS; RAIN; RAIN GAGES; SENSORS;

GEOSYNCHRONOUS; SPECIAL SENSOR MICROWAVE IMAGER;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEFORESTATION; DRY SEASON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY);

AMAZONAS [BRAZIL]; BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 1842739479     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2004)017<1306:TIOADO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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