Evaluation of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment soil moisture simulations for the second half of the twentieth century

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 112, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Li, Haibin ^a   Robock, Alan ^a   Wild, Martin ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOIL MOISTURE;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; GLOBAL WARMING; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SOIL MOISTURE; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ASIA; CHINA; EASTERN EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FAR EAST; MONGOLIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; UKRAINE;

EID: 34249666004     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006JD007455     Document Type: Article

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