How does the partitioning of evapotranspiration and runoff between different processes affect the variability and predictability of soil moisture and precipitation?

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 475-478

  Dickinson, Robert E ^a   Wang, Guiling ^b   Zeng, Xubin ^c   Zeng, Qingcun ^d  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Climate model; Evapotranspiration; Land surface coupling

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PREDICTION; RUNOFF; SOIL MOISTURE;

EID: 0142156186     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02690805     Document Type: Article

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