Energy balance partitioning and net radiation controls on soil moisture-precipitation feedbacks

Earth Interactions

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 1-25

  Jones, Aubrey R ^a   Brunsell, Nathaniel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Feedbacks; Precipitation; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; ENERGY BALANCE; FEEDBACK; IMAGE RESOLUTION; INFORMATION THEORY; MOISTURE CONTROL; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); TEMPERATURE; TURBULENCE; VEGETATION;

ADVANCED REGIONAL PREDICTION SYSTEMS; BOUNDARY LAYER TURBULENCE; DYNAMICS OF SOIL MOISTURES; INFORMATION CONTENTS; REMOTELY SENSED SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL SCALE; STATISTICAL KNOWLEDGE; UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA;

SOIL MOISTURE;

EID: 77950858649     PISSN: 10873562     EISSN: 10873562     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009EI270.1     Document Type: Article

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