Impact of land cover change on climate and El Niño in Australia

MODSIM07 - Land, Water and Environmental Management: Integrated Systems for Sustainability, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 611-618

  Syktus, J ^a   Deo, R C ^b   McAlpine, C A ^b   McGowan, H A ^b   Phinn, S ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate impacts; Droughts; El Ni o; Land cover change

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATES; AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; CROPS; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; EXTRAPOLATION; INTEGRATED CONTROL; OCEANOGRAPHY; RAIN; SEA ICE; SOIL MOISTURE; SOLAR RADIATION; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SURFACE WATERS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; VEGETATION;

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIONS; AUSTRALIAN CONTINENTS; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; LAND SURFACE PARAMETERS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SOUTHWEST WESTERN AUSTRALIA; SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES; SURFACE TEMPERATURES;

LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

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