This paper uses published work to demonstrate the link between surface moisture and heat
fluxes and cumulus convective rainfall. The Earth's surface role with respect to the surface …

Summary¶ An overview of the Regional Atmospheric Modeling System (RAMS) is
presented. We focus on new developments in the RAMS physics and computational …

Managing water resources is one of the most pressing challenges of our times-fundamental
to how we feed 2 billion more people in coming decades, eliminate poverty, and reverse …

This book presents recent estimates on the rate of change of major land classes.
Aggregated globally, multiple impacts of local land changes are shown to significantly affect …

Renewable fresh water comprises a tiny fraction of the global water pool but is the
foundation for life in terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems. The benefits to humans of …

This review focuses on three levels of biodiversity: species, communities, and biomes.
Communities are assemblages of interacting species, such as spruce–fir forests or tallgrass …

Agricultural systems as well as other ecosystems generate ecosystem services, ie, societal
benefits from ecological processes. These services include, for example, nutrient reduction …

This book is unique in providing a global overview of alpine (high mountain) habitats that
occur above the natural (cold-limited) tree line, describing the factors that have shaped them …

The formulation and implementation of LEAF-2, the Land Ecosystem–Atmosphere Feedback
model, which comprises the representation of land–surface processes in the Regional …

An overview of regional land-use and land-cover impacts on rainfall Page 1 Tellus (2007), 59B,
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