Model projections of an imminent transition to a more arid climate in southwestern North America

Science

Volumn 316, Issue 5828, 2007, Pages 1181-1184

  Seager, Richard ^a   Ting, Mingfang ^a   Held, Isaac ^b,c   Kushnir, Yochanan ^a   Lu, Jian ^d   Vecchi, Gabriel ^b   Huang, Huei Ping ^a   Harnik, Nili ^e   Leetmaa, Ants ^b   Lau, Ngar Cheung ^b,c   Li, Cuihua ^a   Velez, Jennifer ^a   Naik, Naomi ^a  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^e TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ARID REGION; ARIDITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; WATER RESOURCE;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; NORTH AMERICA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 34249947530     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1139601     Document Type: Article

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