Changes in cloudiness over tropical land during the last decades and its link to global climate change

Tropical forests play a key role in determining the global carbon-climate feedback in the 21st century. Changes in rainforest growth and mortality rates, especially in the deep and least perturbed forest areas, have been consistently observed across global tropics in recent decades. Understanding th...

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Main Author: Arias, Paola Andrea
Published: Georgia Institute of Technology 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1853/26629