The role of land use change on the development and evolution of the west coast trough, convective clouds, and precipitation in southwest Australia

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 116, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Nair, Udaysankar S ^a,b   Wu, Y ^a   Kala, J ^b   Lyons, T J ^b   Pielke, R A ^c   Hacker, J M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^b MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; COASTAL ZONES; EXPERIMENTS; FENCES; LAND USE; LANDFORMS; VEGETATION;

AERODYNAMIC ROUGHNESS; CLIMATE SYSTEM; CLOUD FIELDS; CONVECTIVE CLOUDS; LAND CLEARING; LAND-COVER CHANGE; LAND-USE CHANGE; NUMERICAL MODELS; REGIONAL IMPACTS; SOUTHWEST AUSTRALIA; SOUTHWEST WESTERN AUSTRALIA; WEST COAST;

RAIN;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUD COVER; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; CONVERGENCE; LAND USE CHANGE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SURFACE ROUGHNESS; VEGETATION COVER;

AUSTRALIA;

ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 79954555921     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JD014950     Document Type: Article

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