The DOI matches its Crossref record.
Baring High-Albedo Soils by Overgrazing: A Hypothesized Desertification Mechanism
Abstract
Observations are reported of high-albedo soils denuded by overgrazing which appear bright, in high contrast to regions covered by natural vegetation. Measurements and modeling show that the denuded surfaces are cooler, when compared under sunlit conditions. This observed "thermal depression" effect should, on theoretical grounds, result in a decreased lifting of air necessary for cloud formation and precipitation, and thus lead to regional climatic desertification.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cited by
Oceanic forcing of Sahel rainfall on interannual to interdecadal time scales.
Giannini, A., Saravanan, R., & Chang, P. (2003) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.1089357 · Cited by 1,058
Climate change, drought and desertification
Le Houérou, H. N. (1996) · Journal of Arid Environments · doi:10.1006/jare.1996.0099 · Cited by 628
Zeng, N. (2003) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.1090849 · Cited by 211
Dynamics of the boreal summer African monsoon in the NSIPP1 atmospheric model.
Giannini, A., Saravanan, R., & Chang, P. (2005) · Climate Dynamics · doi:10.1007/s00382-005-0056-x · Cited by 71
Verheijen, F. G. A., Jeffery, S., van der Velde, M., Penížek, V., Beland, M., Bastos, A. C., & Keizer, J. J. (2013) · Environmental Research Letters · doi:10.1088/1748-9326/8/4/044008 · Cited by 52
Metadata
- Authors
- Otterman, J.
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 1974-11-08
- Volume
- 186
- Issue
- 4163
- Pages
- 531-533
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W2088481082
- Cited by
- 375
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 23.86
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Baring High-Albedo Soils by Overgrazing: A Hypothesized Desertification Mechanism. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1126/science.186.4163.531
- The paper
- Otterman, J. (1974). Baring High-Albedo Soils by Overgrazing: A Hypothesized Desertification Mechanism. Science. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.186.4163.531
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
