The regional climate impact of a realistic future deforestation scenario in the congo basin

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 2714-2734

  Akkermans, Tom ^a   Thiery, Wim ^a   Van Lipzig, Nicole P M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORESTATION; GREENHOUSE GASES; RAIN;

ATMOSPHERIC COLUMNS; COMMUNITY LAND MODELS; FUTURE CLIMATE PROJECTIONS; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELING; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SMALL-SCALE MODELING; SOIL-VEGETATION-ATMOSPHERE TRANSFERS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; DEFORESTATION; GREENHOUSE GAS; HEAT FLOW; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; WARMING;

CLIMATES; DEFORESTATION; GREENHOUSE GASES; RAIN;

CONGO BASIN;

EID: 84894450248     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00361.1     Document Type: Article

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