The impact of plantations on weather and climate in coastal desert regions

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1143-1169

  Wulfmeyer, Volker ^a,b   Branch, Oliver ^a   Warrach Sagi, Kirsten ^a   Bauer, Hans Stefan ^a   Schwitalla, Thomas ^a   Becker, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METEOROLOGY; REFORESTATION; SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

ATMOSPHERIC CONCENTRATION; BOUNDARY LAYER DEPTH; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CONVERGENCE ZONES; LARGE-SCALE PLANTATIONS; NONLINEAR CHANGES; QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; SOIL VEGETATION ATMOSPHERES;

LANDFORMS;

AFFORESTATION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATE EFFECT; COASTAL ZONE; CONVERGENCE; DESERT; LAND COVER; LAND SURFACE; PLANTATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; OMAN; SONORAN DESERT;

EID: 84900791685     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: 15588432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-13-0208.1     Document Type: Article

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