Effect of land-atmosphere coupling strength on impacts from Amazonian deforestation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 16, 2014, Pages 5987-5995

  Lorenz, Ruth ^a   Pitman, Andy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; RAIN;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CO-LOCATED; COUPLING STRENGTHS; DRY SEASONS; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; LAND-ATMOSPHERE COUPLINGS; MODEL SIMULATION; SPATIAL SCALE;

DEFORESTATION;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; COUPLING; DEFORESTATION; SIMULATION; SPATIAL VARIATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84906526780     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL061017     Document Type: Article

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