Our Amazing Planet: Deforestation around Africa's Mount Kilimanjaro may have as large of an impact on the mountain's local weather and climate as global climate change, according to researchers from the University of Alabama, Huntsville.
Udaysankar Nair, a research scientist at the university's Earth Sciences Center, and doctoral student Jonathan Fairman are using climate models and data from NASA satellites to create a local model that can predict the effects of deforestation on local weather patterns, including......
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Tanzania: Kilimanjaro deforestation could impact local weather patterns
Posted by Our Amazing Planet: None Given on March 11th, 2011
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