A new method for exploring coupled land-atmosphere dynamics

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1040-1050

  Delsole, Timothy ^a,b   Zhao, Mei ^c   Dirmeyer, Paul ^b  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^c Bureau of Meteorology Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR-SOIL INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; COUPLING; DATA ASSIMILATION; FORECASTING METHOD; MIDLATITUDE ENVIRONMENT; WATER BUDGET; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 77952739971     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JHM1071.1     Document Type: Article

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