Climate change scenario for Costa Rican montane forests

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2008, Pages

  Karmalkar, Ambarish V ^a   Bradley, R S ^a   Diaz, Henry F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b ESRL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; LANDFORMS;

CLOUD COVERS; CLOUD FORMATION; COSTA RICA; DRY SEASONS; HIGH ELEVATIONS; MODEL RESULTS; MONTANE FORESTS; MOUNTAIN ECOSYSTEMS; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELLING; TEMPERATURE CHANGING;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLOUD COVER; GLOBAL WARMING; MONTANE FOREST; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; REGIONAL CLIMATE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN SEA; CENTRAL AMERICA; COSTA RICA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 49849086557     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL033940     Document Type: Article

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