Sensitivity of June near-surface temperatures and precipitation in the eastern United States to historical land cover changes since European settlement

Water Resources Research

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 2008, Pages

  Strack, John E ^a,b   Pielke Sr , Roger A ^a   Steyaert, Louis T ^c   Knox, Robert G ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; LANDFORMS; MILITARY OPERATIONS; SOIL TESTING; STATISTICAL TESTS; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SURFACE TENSION;

BIOPHYSICAL PARAMETERS; DATA SETS; EUROPEANS; LAND COVERS; LAND SURFACE PARAMETERIZATION; LAND SURFACE PROPERTIES; LEAF AREA INDEXES; MAXIMUM TEMPERATURES; REGIONAL ATMOSPHERIC MODELING SYSTEMS; ROUGHNESS LENGTHS; SATURATED SOILS; SENSITIVITY TESTS; STOMATAL RESISTANCES; SURFACE ENERGY BALANCES; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TIME SLICES; TWENTIETH CENTURIES; UNITED STATES;

SURFACE PROPERTIES;

DATA SET; LAND COVER; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGROWTH; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WEATHER;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 58149091690     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007WR006546     Document Type: Article

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