Increased dry-season length over southern Amazonia in recent decades and its implication for future climate projection

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 45, 2013, Pages 18110-18115

  Fu, Rong ^a   Yin, Lei ^a   Li, Wenhong ^b   Arias, Paola A ^c   Dickinson, Robert E ^a   Huang, Lei ^a   Chakraborty, Sudip ^a   Fernandes, Katia ^d   Liebmann, Brant ^e   Fisher, Rosie ^f   Myneni, Ranga B ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTIOQUIA   (Colombia)

^d Earth Institute   (United States)

^e EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^f NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^g BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate model projection; Climate variability; Rainforests

Indexed keywords

OZONE; RAIN;

AIR; AIR TEMPERATURE; ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATMOSPHERE; BIOMASS; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; EL NINO; ENERGY; GAUGE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GREENHOUSE GAS; HUMIDITY; INDIAN OCEAN; LAND USE; PACIFIC OCEAN; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAIN FOREST; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASON; SOIL MOISTURE; SOUTH AMERICA; SPRING; SUMMER; THERMODYNAMICS; VEGETATION; WINTER;

CLIMATE MODEL PROJECTION; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; RAINFORESTS;

BRAZIL; CLIMATE CHANGE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SEASONS; TREES;

EID: 84887315104     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1302584110     Document Type: Article

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