Climate impacts of land-cover and land-use changes in tropical islands under conditions of global climate change

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1535-1550

  Comarazamy, Daniel E ^a   GonzáLez, Jorge E ^b   Luvall, Jeffrey C ^c   Rickman, Douglas L ^c   Bornstein, Robert D ^d  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmosphere land interaction; Climate change; Cloud resolving models; Model output statistics; Regional models; Statistical techniques

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-LAND INTERACTIONS; CLOUD RESOLVING MODEL; MODEL OUTPUT STATISTICS; REGIONAL MODEL; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; GLOBAL WARMING; LAND USE; MOTOR TRANSPORTATION; TROPICS;

LANDFORMS;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUD; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; GLOBAL CHANGE; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY;

PUERTO RICO;

EID: 84874792089     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00087.1     Document Type: Article

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