Potential evapotranspiration and continental drying

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 946-949

  Milly, P C D ^a   Dunne, K A ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DROUGHT STRESS; DRYLAND FARMING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; POTENTIAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); STOMATAL CONDUCTANCE; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

EID: 84989162796     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate3046     Document Type: Article

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