The impact of deforestation on rainfall in Africa: a data-driven assessment

Forests play an important role in maintaining rainfall patterns worldwide by recycling water back to the atmosphere through evapotranspiration. We present a novel spatiotemporal data-driven model and assessment of the impacts of various deforestation scenarios on rainfall patterns in sub-Saharan Afr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Confidence Duku, Lars Hein
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2021-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abfcfb