A land-atmospheric interaction study in the coastal tropical city of San Juan, Puerto Rico

Earth Interactions

Volumn 14, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 1-24

  Comarazamy, Daniel E ^a   González, Jorge E ^b   Luvall, Jeffrey C ^c   Rickman, Douglas L ^c   Mulero, Pedro J ^d  

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

^b City College of New York   (United States)

^c NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d IBERDROLA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Land cover change; Land atmosphere interactions; Regional climate modeling

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; LAND USE; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); REMOTE SENSING; TROPICS;

ATMOSPHERIC INTERACTION; HIGH RESOLUTION REMOTE SENSING; LAND-COVER CHANGE; NEAR SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURE; REGIONAL ATMOSPHERIC MODELING SYSTEMS; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELING; SURFACE CHARACTERISTICS; URBAN CONGLOMERATIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

EID: 78650381766     PISSN: 10873562     EISSN: 10873562     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010EI309.1     Document Type: Article

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