A soil moisture-rainfall feedback mechanism 2. Numerical experiments

Water Resources Research

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 777-785

  Zheng, Xinyu ^a   Eltahir, Elfatih A B ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEEDBACK MECHANISM; SOIL MOISTURE/RAINFALL;

FEEDBACK; FEEDBACK CONTROL; MOISTURE; RAIN; SOILS;

FEEDBACK MECHANISMS; NET RADIATION; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; RAINFALL ANOMALY; WEST AFRICAN MONSOON;

SOIL MOISTURE;

EID: 0031923149     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97WR03497     Document Type: Article

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