Response of surface air temperature to small-scale land clearing across latitudes

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Zhang, Mi ^a   Lee, Xuhui ^b   Yu, Guirui ^c   Han, Shijie ^d   Wang, Huimin ^c   Yan, Junhua ^e   Zhang, Yiping ^f   Li, Yide ^g   Ohta, Takeshi ^h   Hirano, Takashi ⁱ   Kim, Joon ^j   Yoshifuji, Natsuko ^k   Wang, Wei ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b Yale University   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF APPLIED ECOLOGY   (China)

^e SOUTH CHINA INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^f CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^g RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FORESTRY   (China)

^h NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

ⁱ HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^j Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^k KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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Author keywords

deforestation; diurnal temperature range; latitudinal pattern; surface air temperature

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; DEFORESTATION; WEATHER INFORMATION SERVICES;

ANNUAL MEAN TEMPERATURES; DIURNAL TEMPERATURE RANGES; LAND USE/COVER CHANGE; LATITUDINAL PATTERN; MINIMUM TEMPERATURES; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES; TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCES; TEMPERATURE PATTERNS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; BOREAL FOREST; CLIMATE MODELING; DEFORESTATION; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TROPICAL REGION; WARMING; WEATHER STATION;

DEFORESTATION; GIS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; TEMPERATURE;

FAR EAST; NORTH AMERICA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 84928096733     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/9/3/034002     Document Type: Article

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