Past, present and future vegetation-cloud feedbacks in the Amazon Basin

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 741-751

  Pinto, E ^a   Shin, Y ^a   Cowling, S A ^a   Jones, C D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amazon Basin; Broadleaf forest; Cloud base height; Global change; Last glacial maximum; Lifting condensation level; Modeling; Rain forest; Vegetation climate feedbacks

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-BIOSPHERE INTERACTION; CANOPY EXCHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CONDENSATION; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; FORMATION MECHANISM; FUTURE PROSPECT; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; RAINFOREST; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

AMAZON BASIN; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 62549132029     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-009-0536-5     Document Type: Article

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