Progress in modeling the impact of land cover change on the global climate

Progress in Physical Geography

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 737-749

  Salmun, Haydee ^a   Molod, Andrea ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Land cover change; Land atmosphere interactions; Modeling

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATE CHANGE; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLOBAL CLIMATE; LAND COVER; LAND SURFACE; LAND USE CHANGE;

EID: 33846164428     PISSN: 03091333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0309133306071956     Document Type: Review

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