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Has the Conversion of Natural Wetlands to Agricultural Land Increased the Incidence and Severity of Damaging Freezes in South Florida?
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: On several occasions, winter freezes have wrought severe destruction on Florida agriculture. A series of devastating freezes around the turn of the twentieth century, and again during the 1980s, were related to anomalies ...
Precipitation Patterns in West Africa
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A regional precipitation analysis from a total of 813 recording stations in 11 West African countries for the drought period 1968?75 is presented. Results illustrate the severity and extent of meteorological drought which ...
The Impact of Anthropogenic Land-Cover Change on the Florida Peninsula Sea Breezes and Warm Season Sensible Weather
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: During the twentieth century, the natural landscape of the Florida peninsula was transformed extensively by agriculture, urbanization, and the diversion of surface water features. The purpose of this paper is to present a ...