Future desertification and climate change: The need for land-surface system evaluation improvement

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 64, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 129-138

  Henderson Sellers, A ^a   Irannejad, P ^b   McGuffie, K ^c  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

arid land management; climate change; desertification prediction; land moisture simulation; water isotopes

Indexed keywords

ARID ENVIRONMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; DESERTIFICATION; ENERGY BUDGET; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; ISOTOPE; LAND DEGRADATION; MOISTURE;

EID: 57049086356     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2008.06.007     Document Type: Article

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