Concurrent variations of water vapor and temperature corresponding to the interannual variation of precipitation in the North American Regional Reanalysis

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 115, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Lu, Er ^a   Takle, Eugene S ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; COOLING;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; HIGH LATITUDES; INTER-ANNUAL PREDICTIONS; INTERANNUAL TIME SCALE; INTERANNUAL VARIATION; MIDLATITUDES; NORTH AMERICAN; REANALYSIS; RELATIVE HUMIDITIES; SAMPLED DATA; VARIATION PATTERN; WATER VAPOR FLUX; WINTER PRECIPITATION;

WATER VAPOR;

AIR SAMPLING; ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE PREDICTION; COOLING; DATA SET; HEAT FLUX; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; WATER VAPOR;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 77953748372     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JD012956     Document Type: Article

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