Effects of deforestation on spatiotemporal distributions of precipitation in South America

Journal of Climate

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2147-2163

  Medvigy, David ^a   Walko, Robert L ^b   Avissar, Roni ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate models; Deforestation; Ecosystem effects; Mesoscale models; Precipitation; South America

Indexed keywords

AMAZON DEFORESTATION; ECOSYSTEM EFFECTS; LATERAL BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; MEAN INTENSITY; MESOSCALE; MESOSCALE MODEL; NATURAL ECOSYSTEM; PRECIPITATION EVENTS; PRECIPITATION FREQUENCY; SOUTH AMERICA; SPATIOTEMPORAL DISTRIBUTIONS; SURFACE HYDROLOGY; VARIABLE RESOLUTION;

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; ECOSYSTEMS;

DEFORESTATION;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEFORESTATION; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLOBAL CHANGE; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM;

SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 79958152260     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JCLI3882.1     Document Type: Article

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