Global Warming and Climate Change in Amazonia: Climate-Vegetation Feedback and Impacts on Water Resources

Amazonia and Global Change

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 273-292

  Marengo, José ^a   Nobre, Carlos A ^a   Betts, Richard A ^b   Cox, Peter M ^b,c   Sampaio, Gilvan ^a   Salazar, Luis ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amazon River Region Climate; Biosphere Research Amazon River Region; Climatic changes Amazon River Region; Rain forest ecology Amazon River Region

Indexed keywords

CARBON; DEFORESTATION; ECOLOGY; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; LAND USE; VEGETATION;

AMAZON DEFORESTATION; AMAZON RIVER; CLIMATE CHANGE MODELING; DANGEROUS CLIMATE CHANGES; DEGREE OF UNCERTAINTY; GLOBAL WARMING AND CLIMATE CHANGES; GREENHOUSE GASES EMISSIONS; LONG-TERM CLIMATE VARIABILITY;

RIVERS;

EID: 84951293031     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GM000744     Document Type: Chapter

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