Impacts of land use/land cover change on climate and future research priorities

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 37-46

  Mahmood, Rezaul ^a   Pielke Sr , Roger A ^b   Hubbard, Kenneth G ^c   Niyogi, Dev ^d   Bonan, Gordon ^e   Lawrence, Peter ^b   McNider, Richard ^f   McAlpine, Clive ^g   Etter, Andres ^h   Gameda, Samuel ⁱ   Qian, Budong ⁱ   Carleton, Andrew ^j   Beltran Przekurat, Adriana ^b   Chase, Thomas ^b   Quintanar, Arturo I ^a   Adegoke, Jimmy O ^k   Vezhapparambu, Sajith ^k   Conner, Glen ^a   Asefi, Salvi ^f   Sertel, Elif ^l   Legates, David R ^m   Wu, Yuling ^f   Hale, Robert ⁿ   Frauenfeld, Oliver W ^b   Watts, Anthony ^o   Shepherd, Marshall ^p   Mitra, Chandana ^p   Anantharaj, Valentine G ^q   Fall, Souleymane ^d   Lund, Robert ^r   Treviño, Anna ^s   Blanken, Peter ^b   Du, Jinyang ^t   Chang, Hsin I ^d   Leeper, Ronnie ^a   Nair, Udaysankar S ^f   Dobler, Scott ^a   Deo, Ravinesh ^g   Syktus, Jozef ^u   more..

^a WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^h PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD JAVERIANA   (Colombia)

ⁱ AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

^j PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

^l ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^m UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

ⁿ Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^o IntelliWeather   (United States)

^p UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^q MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^r CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^s LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^t AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^u DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT   (Australia)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; LAND USE;

ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS; CLIMATE MONITORING; LAND USE AND LAND COVER CHANGE; LAND USE/LAND COVER CHANGE; NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTERS; RESEARCH PRIORITIES; SKIN TEMPERATURES; US CLIMATE REFERENCE NETWORKS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 77249154045     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009BAMS2769.1     Document Type: Review

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