Climatic response to changes in vegetation in the Northwest Hetao Plain as simulated by the WRF model

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1470-1481

  Yu, Entao ^a,b,c   Wang, Huijun ^a,b   Sun, Jianqi ^a   Gao, Yongqi ^a,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Climate response; Northwest Hetao Plain; Vegetation change

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION ANOMALY; CLIMATE RESPONSE; HETAO PLAIN; PRECIPITATION LEVEL; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; TEMPERATURE INCREASE; VEGETATION CHANGE; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LASERS; VEGETATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WATER VAPOR;

CHINA; HETAO PLAIN; NEI MONGGOL;

EID: 84876322495     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.3527     Document Type: Article

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