Influence of Amazonian deforestation on the future evolution of regional surface fluxes, circulation, surface temperature and precipitation

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 44, Issue 9-10, 2015, Pages 2769-2786

  Lejeune, Quentin ^a   Davin, Edouard L ^a   Guillod, Benoit P ^a   Seneviratne, Sonia I ^a  

^a Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Amazonian deforestation; Land use and land cover changes; Tipping points; Twenty first century

Indexed keywords

EID: 84940239344     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-014-2203-8     Document Type: Article

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