The soil moisture-precipitation feedback in simulations with explicit and parameterized convection

Journal of Climate

Volumn 22, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 5003-5020

  Hohenegger, Cathy ^a   Brockhaus, Peter ^a   Bretherton, Christopher S ^b   Schär, Christoph ^a  

^a Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR BARRIERS; ALPINE REGIONS; CLOUD RESOLVING MODEL; CLOUD-RESOLVING; DEEP CONVECTION; EXPLICIT TREATMENTS; EXTRATROPICAL; FEED-BACK LOOP; FORCINGS; GRID-SPACINGS; INITIAL CONDITIONS; INITIAL SOIL MOISTURE; MODEL CONFIGURATION; MOIST CONVECTION; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; PARAMETERIZED; PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYERS; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; REGIONAL CLIMATE SIMULATION; RESOLUTION MODELING; SMALL-SCALE MODELING; STABLE LAYER; SUMMER CLIMATE; SURFACE CLIMATE; TEMPERATURE FEEDBACK; WET SOIL;

CLIMATE MODELS; FEEDBACK; GROUNDWATER; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; NATURAL CONVECTION; PERMITTIVITY; SOIL MOISTURE;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; BOUNDARY LAYER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXTRATROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; SOIL MOISTURE;

EUROPE;

EID: 70849097380     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JCLI2604.1     Document Type: Article

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