A comparative study of two land surface schemes in regional climate integrations over South America

Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres

Volumn 107, Issue 20, 2002, Pages LBA-48-1-LBA-48-9

  Misra, Vasubandhu ^a   Dirmeyer, Paul A ^a   Kirtman, Ben P ^a  

^a CENTER FOR OCEAN LAND ATMOSPHERE STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

1836 Hydrology: Hydrologie budget (1655); 3309 Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics: Climatology (1620); 3374 Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics: Tropical meteorology; 9360 Information Related to Geographic Region: South America

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SOILS; VEGETATION;

LAND SURFACE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; VEGETATION;

AMAZON BASIN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BOLIVIA; CARIBBEAN SEA; GUIANA HIGHLANDS; LLANOS; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 36448979973     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001JD001284     Document Type: Article

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