A negative soil moisture-precipitation relationship and its causes

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1364-1376

  Wei, Jiangfeng ^a,b   Dickinson, Robert E ^a   Chen, Haishan ^a,c  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RETENTION; SOIL MOISTURE;

EID: 53749088280     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JHM955.1     Document Type: Article

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