Impacts of a changing climate and low land use on a Tropical Montane Cloud Forest

WIT Transactions on the Built Environment

Volumn 99, Issue , 2008, Pages 59-70

  Torres, I ^a   Gonzalez J E ^b   Comarazamy, D E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^b Department of Computer Science and Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Dry season; Land use; Puerto Rico; RAMS; Tropical Montane Cloud Forest

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; COASTAL ZONES; DROUGHT; GLOBAL WARMING; LAND USE; RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TROPICS; WATER;

AIR TEMPERATURE (T); CLIMATE IMPACTS; CLIMATE VARIATIONS; DRY SEASON; HISTORICAL CHANGES; LAND AREAS; MOISTURE CONTENT (MC); PUERTO RICO; RAMS; REGIONAL ATMOSPHERIC MODELING SYSTEM (RAMS); SEA-SURFACE-TEMPERATURE (SST); SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; TEST CASES; TROPICAL MONTANE CLOUD FOREST; WEATHER STATIONS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; CLOUD FOREST; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; DRY SEASON; GLOBAL CLIMATE; LAND USE CHANGE; MOISTURE CONTENT; MONTANE FOREST; NUMERICAL MODEL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; CARIBBEAN NATIONAL FOREST; GREATER ANTILLES; PUERTO RICO;

EID: 58449131882     PISSN: 17433509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2495/CENV080061     Document Type: Conference Paper

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