Impact of atmospheric moisture storage on precipitation recycling

Journal of Climate

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1513-1530

  Dominguez, Francina ^a   Kumar, Praveen ^a   Liang, Xin Zhong ^b   Ting, Mingfang ^c  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b ILLINOIS STATE WATER SURVEY   (United States)

^c Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE STORAGE; PRECIPITATION RECYCLING; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RECYCLING;

EID: 33646768986     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3691.1     Document Type: Article

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