Revisiting forest impact on atmospheric water vapor transport and precipitation

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 111, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 79-96

  Makarieva, Anastassia M ^a   Gorshkov, Victor G ^a   Li, Bai Lian ^b  

^a PETERSBURG NUCLEAR PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREAL FOREST; DATABASE; MOISTURE TRANSFER; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFOREST; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 84871930315     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-012-0643-9     Document Type: Article

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