Influence of savanna fire on Australian monsoon season precipitation and circulation as simulated using a distributed computing environment

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 20, 2007, Pages

  Lynch, Amanda H ^a   Abramson, David ^a   Görgen, Klaus ^b   Beringer, Jason ^a   Uotila, Petteri ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Luxembourg)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; FIRES; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN;

AUSTRALIA; BOUNDARY-LAYER CIRCULATION; LARGE-SCALE CONVERGENCE; MONSOON;

WIND;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; SAVANNA; WILDFIRE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 37349046666     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL030879     Document Type: Article

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