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Science 15 January 1999:
Vol. 283. no. 5400, pp. 317 - 319
DOI: 10.1126/science.283.5400.317
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CLIMATE CHANGE:
Landscape Changes Make Regional Climate Run Hot and Cold

Jennifer Couzin

Deforestation, grazing, agriculture, and development have profoundly altered vast swaths of land on almost every continent, changing regional climate in the process. Researchers are now measuring and trying to understand the cooling effect of irrigated farming in Colorado, the warming and drying seen in deforested areas of the Amazon and elsewhere, and variations in storm intensity in the U.S. Northeast that match the weekly rise and fall of air pollution.

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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)