The impact of Amazonian deforestation on Amazon basin rainfall

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 21, 2015, Pages 9546-9552

  Spracklen, D V ^a   Garcia Carreras, L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

climate model; deforestation; rainfall

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; DEFORESTATION;

BUSINESS-AS-USUAL; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL SIMULATIONS; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; NATURAL VARIABILITY; NON-LINEAR RESPONSE; SIMULATED RAINFALL; SURFACE PARAMETER;

RAIN;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; DEFORESTATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; META-ANALYSIS; NONLINEARITY; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS;

AMAZON BASIN; AMAZONIA;

EID: 84955173296     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL066063     Document Type: Article

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