Impact of land use on Costa Rican tropical montane cloud forests: Sensitivity of orographic cloud formation to deforestation in the plains

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Ray, Deepak K ^a,b   Nair, Udaysankar S ^a   Lawton, Robert O ^a   Welch, Ronald M ^a   Pielke Sr , Roger A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEFORESTATION; FORESTRY; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; HEAT FLUX; LAND USE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADIOSONDES;

CLOUD FOREST; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT;

EID: 33645020403     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005JD006096     Document Type: Article

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