Did aboriginal vegetation burning impact on the Australian summer monsoon?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Notaro, Michael ^a   Wyrwoll, Karl Heinz ^b   Chen, Guangshan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SURFACE MEASUREMENT; VEGETATION;

ATMOSPHERIC STABILITY; AUSTRAL SPRING; ECOLOGICAL IMPACTS; ENSEMBLE MODELS; ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY; GROUND TEMPERATURE; LATE QUATERNARY; MONSOON SEASON; NORTHERN AUSTRALIA; PRE-MONSOON; SUMMER MONSOON; VEGETATION COVER;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; MONSOON; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; POPULATION DECLINE; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; QUATERNARY; SEASONAL VARIATION; STABILIZATION; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 79959415168     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL047774     Document Type: Article

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