Strong control of surface roughness variations on the simulatedry season regional atmospheric response to contemporary deforestation in Rondônia, Brazil

Journal of Geophysical Research

Volumn 119, Issue 23, 2014, Pages 13,067-13,078

  Khanna, Jaya ^a   Medvigy, David ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; DEFORESTATION; LANDSCAPE; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; ROUGHNESS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SIMULATION; SURFACE ENERGY; THERMODYNAMICS;

BRAZIL; RONDONIA;

NIA;

EID: 84919841003     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: 21562202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014JD022278     Document Type: Article

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