Warm-season rainfall variability over the U.S. Great Plains and its correlation with evapotranspiration in a climate simulation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 17, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Wu, Wanru ^a   Dickinson, Robert E ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE; RAIN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOILS;

CLIMATE SIMULATION; LAND ATMOSPHERE INTERACTION; LINEAR REGRESSION; RAINFALL VARIABILITY; STANDARD DEVIATION;

CLIMATOLOGY;

PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEASONAL VARIATION;

GREAT PLAINS; NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 27544438679     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL023422     Document Type: Article

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