Vegetation dynamics contributes to the multi-decadal variability of precipitation in the Amazon region

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 19, 2011, Pages

  Wang, Guiling ^a   Sun, Shanshan ^a   Mei, Rui ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT;

AMAZON REGION; ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; ARID AND SEMI-ARID REGIONS; DAMPING EFFECT; DRY SEASONS; LOW FREQUENCY VARIABILITY; MODELING STUDIES; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY; VEGETATION DENSITY; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VEGETATION GROWTH;

VEGETATION;

ARID REGION; ATMOSPHERE-BIOSPHERE INTERACTION; DAMPING; DECADAL VARIATION; DROUGHT; FLOOD; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEASONALITY; SEMIARID REGION; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

AMAZONIA;

EID: 80053977889     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL049017     Document Type: Article

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