Irrigation cooling effect: Regional climate forcing by land-use change

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Kueppers, Lara M ^a,b   Snyder, Mark A ^a   Sloan, Lisa C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GREENHOUSE GASES; GREENHOUSES; IRRIGATION; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

CLIMATE FORCING; SEASONAL VARIABILITY;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; COOLING; IRRIGATION; LAND USE CHANGE;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34548031882     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL028679     Document Type: Article

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