Soil water and the persistence of floods and droughts in the Mississippi River Basin

Water Resources Research

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 2693-2701

  Bonan, Gordon B ^a   Stillwell Soller, Lana M ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; FLOOD; HEAT FLUX; PERSISTENCE; SOIL WATER;

MISSISSIPPI RIVER BASIN; UNITED STATES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELS; DROUGHT; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FEEDBACK; FLOODS; HEAT FLUX; LATENT HEAT; RIVERS; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; WATER CONTENT; WATER RESOURCES; WATERSHEDS;

COMMUNITY CLIMATE MODELS; FIELD CAPACITY; LAND SURFACE MODELING; MISSISSIPPI RIVER BASIN; NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCHES; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; STEP-FUNCTION RESPONSE; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES;

SOILS;

EID: 0031683846     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98WR02073     Document Type: Article

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