Biomass burning, land-cover change, and the hydrological cycle in Northern sub-Saharan Africa

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2016, Pages

  Ichoku, Charles ^a   Ellison, Luke T ^a,b   Willmot, K Elena ^c   Matsui, Toshihisa ^a,d   Dezfuli, Amin K ^a,e   Gatebe, Charles K ^a,e   Wang, Jun ^f,g   Wilcox, Eric M ^h   Lee, Jejung ⁱ   Adegoke, Jimmy ⁱ   Okonkwo, Churchill ^j   Bolten, John ^a   Policelli, Frederick S ^a   Habib, Shahid ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^h DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

^j HOWARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Author keywords

biomass burning; fire; land cover change; precipitation; sub Saharan Africa; water cycle

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; DROUGHT; FIRES; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SOIL MOISTURE;

BIOMASS-BURNING; GLOBAL CARBON EMISSION; HYDROLOGICAL VARIABLES; LAND-COVER CHANGE; SATELLITE FIRE DETECTION; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WATER CYCLE; WATER CYCLE INDICATORS;

BIOMASS;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; BIOMASS BURNING; CARBON EMISSION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DRY SEASON; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; FIRE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; LAND COVER; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; SATELLITE DATA; SAVANNA; SOIL MOISTURE; WETLAND;

WEST AFRICA;

EID: 84992134093     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/11/9/095005     Document Type: Article

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