Amplification of the North American “Dust Bowl” drought through human-induced land degradation

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• Publication year

  2008

• Venue

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

• Publication date

  2008-12-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science, History

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  DOI 10.1073/pnas.0810200106PMID 19289836PMCID PMC2664008
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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