Modeled impact of anthropogenic land cover change on climate

Journal of Climate

Volumn 20, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 3621-3634

  Findell, Kirsten L ^a   Shevliakova, Elena ^b   Milly, P C D ^c   Stouffer, Ronald J ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; IRRIGATION; LANDFORMS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; VEGETATION; WATER MANAGEMENT;

LAND COVER; ROOTING DEPTH; STOMATAL CONTROL; SURFACE ALBEDO;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; EUROPE; FAR EAST; INDIA; NORTH AMERICA; SOUTH ASIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34547920777     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI4185.1     Document Type: Article

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