Climate impact of deforestation over South Sudan in a regional climate model

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2362-2375

  Salih, Abubakr A M ^a   Körnich, Heiner ^a   Tjernström, Michael ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Climate change; Deforestation; Drought; Land use change; Regional modeling; Sudan rainfall; Vegetation change

Indexed keywords

CONTROL EXPERIMENTS; LAND-USE CHANGE; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS (REGCM3); REGIONAL MODELING; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; THEORETICAL PHYSICS; VEGETATION CHANGE;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DROUGHT; EXPERIMENTS; LAND USE; LANDFORMS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; VEGETATION;

DEFORESTATION;

CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; DEFORESTATION; DROUGHT; LAND USE CHANGE; RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

DEFORESTATION; DROUGHT; FORESTRY; LAND USE; PLANTS; RAIN; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUDAN; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TEMPERATURE;

SUDAN;

EID: 84880929741     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.3586     Document Type: Article

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