Changes in rainfall seasonality in the tropics

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 811-815

  Feng, Xue ^a   Porporato, Amilcare ^a   Rodriguez Iturbe, Ignacio ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; ANNUAL VARIATION; ARID REGION; CLIMATE CHANGE; PHENOLOGY; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; RAINFALL; SEASONALITY; SEMIARID REGION; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; WATER AVAILABILITY;

EID: 84883369852     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate1907     Document Type: Article

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