Land use change impacts on regional climate over Kilimanjaro

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Fairman Jr , Jonathan G ^a   Nair, Udaysankar S ^b   Christopher, Sundar A ^a,b   Mölg, Thomas ^c  

^a National Space Science and Technology Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; DEFORESTATION; DROUGHT; GLACIERS; LAND USE; LANDFORMS; MOISTURE; RAIN;

AERODYNAMIC RESISTANCE; CIRCULATION PATTERNS; CLOUD LIQUID WATER PATH; DRY SEASONS; GLACIER RECESSION; KILIMANJARO; LAND COVER; LAND-USE CHANGE; MOISTURE TRANSPORT; OROGRAPHIC FLOW; REGIONAL ATMOSPHERIC MODELING SYSTEMS; REGIONAL CLIMATE; TROPICAL CLIMATES; WIND SPEED;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AIRFLOW; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLOUD COVER; DEFORESTATION; ELEVATION; FLOW PATTERN; GLACIER RETREAT; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; OROGRAPHY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; TROPICAL REGION; WIND VELOCITY;

KILIMANJARO [TANZANIA]; TANZANIA;

EID: 79951920407     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JD014712     Document Type: Article

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