Coupling terrestrial and atmospheric water dynamics to improve prediction in a changing environment

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 89, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1275-1279

  Lyon, Steve W ^a   Dominguez, Francina ^b   Gochis, David J ^c   Brunsell, Nathaniel A ^d   Castro, Christopher L ^b   Chow, Fotini K ^e   Fan, Ying ^f   Fuka, Daniel ^g   Hong, Yang ^h   Kucera, Paula A ^c   Nesbitt, Stephen W ⁱ   Salzmann, Nadine ^c   Schmidli, Juerg ^c   Synder, Peter K ^j   Teuling, Adriaan J ^k   Twine, Tracye E ^j   Levis, Samuel ^c   Lundquist, Jessica D ^l   Salvucci, Guido D ^m   Sealy, Andrea M ^c   Walter, M Todd ^g   more..

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^e 109 McLaughlin Hall   (United States)

^f RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering   (United States)

^h University of Oklahoma   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^k ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

^l University of Washington   (United States)

^m BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CLIMATOLOGY; CONTROL THEORY; DYNAMICS; EARTH SCIENCES; FEEDBACK; FORECASTING; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDROGEOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SOIL MOISTURE; VEGETATION; WATER; WATER SUPPLY;

ALL PHASES; ATMOSPHERIC FLOWS; ATMOSPHERIC WATERS; BIOGEOCHEMICAL REGIMES; CHANGING ENVIRONMENTS; CLIMATE PREDICTIONS; FEEDBACK INTERACTIONS; FEEDBACKS]; LAND SURFACES; LOCAL PROCESSES; METRICS; NUMERICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL PREDICTIONS; RELATIVE MAGNITUDES; SUBSURFACE FLOWS; UNSATURATED ZONES; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WATER PARTITIONS;

HYDRAULIC MODELS;

EID: 54249109460     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008BAMS2547.1     Document Type: Article

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