Groundwater convergence as a possible mechanism for multi-year persistence in rainfall

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Bierkens, Marc F P ^a   van den Hurk, Bart J J M ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; DROUGHT; GROUNDWATER FLOW; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOIL MOISTURE; VEGETATION;

GROUNDWATER CONVERGENCE; LAND-ATMOSPHERE COUPLING; SURFACE ALBEDO;

RAIN;

AIR-SOIL INTERACTION; CLIMATE FORCING; GROUNDWATER; PERSISTENCE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; SOIL MOISTURE; STOCHASTICITY;

EID: 34548036253     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL028396     Document Type: Article

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