Irrigation as an historical climate forcing

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 44, Issue 5-6, 2015, Pages 1715-1730

  Cook, Benjamin I ^a   Shukla, Sonali P ^a   Puma, Michael J ^b   Nazarenko, Larissa S ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate modeling; Forcing; Historical simulations; Irrigation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939885377     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-014-2204-7     Document Type: Article

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