ESSIC Research Professor and CICS-MD Director Hugo Berbery was the Keynote Speaker at the Ninth International Congress of the Spanish Association of Climatology. (9º Congreso Internacional AEC en Almería ) held in, Almeria, Spain, on 28-30 October 2014. His talk was entitled “Land cover change effects on South American regional climate.”
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