Observational evidence that agricultural intensification and land use change may be reducing the Indian summer monsoon rainfall

Water Resources Research

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Niyogi, Dev ^a,b   Kishtawal, Chandra ^c   Tripathi, Shivam ^d   Govindaraju, Rao S ^d  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION; CLIMATIC SIGNALS; DAILY RAINFALL; DATA SETS; DISCOVERY ALGORITHM; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION; INDIAN SUMMER MONSOON; INDIAN SUMMER MONSOON RAINFALL; LAND SURFACE; LAND-USE CHANGE; MONSOON RAINFALL; NORMALIZED DIFFERENTIAL VEGETATION INDICES; PRE-MONSOON; PRECIPITATION DATA; REGIONAL TRENDS; SEASONAL PRECIPITATIONS; SUMMER MONSOON; SUMMER MONSOON RAINFALL;

AGRICULTURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATOLOGY; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; LAND USE; VEGETATION;

RAIN;

AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION; CLIMATOLOGY; CORRELATION; DATA SET; GENETIC ALGORITHM; LAND SURFACE; LAND USE CHANGE; MONSOON; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEASONAL VARIATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

INDIA;

EID: 77958560936     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008WR007082     Document Type: Article

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