Potential feedback of recent vegetation changes on summer rainfall in the Sahel

Physical Geography

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 449-470

  Lee, Eungul ^a   He, Yaqian ^a   Zhou, Mo ^a   Liang, Jingjing ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

agricultural land use; climate; Granger causality; precipitation; Sahel; vegetation index

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; CLIMATE EFFECT; GRANGER CAUSALITY TEST; HEAT FLUX; HUMIDITY; LAND USE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; SUMMER; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VEGETATION INDEX;

SAHEL [SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA];

EID: 84958590611     PISSN: 02723646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02723646.2015.1120139     Document Type: Article

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