The impact of anthropogenic land use and land cover change on regional climate extremes

Nature Communications

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Findell, Kirsten L ^a   Berg, Alexis ^b   Gentine, Pierre ^c   Krasting, John P ^a   Lintner, Benjamin R ^d   Malyshev, Sergey ^a   Santanello, Joseph A ^e   Shevliakova, Elena ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

^c Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^d RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORESTATION; EXTREME EVENT; HUMAN ACTIVITY; HUMIDITY; LAND COVER; LAND SURFACE; LAND TYPE; LAND USE; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATE; CROPLAND; DEFORESTATION; ENTHALPY; FOREST; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; LATITUDE; LIQUID; PASTURE; SEA; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; TROPICS; VEGETATION;

EID: 85032180239     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-01038-w     Document Type: Article

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