Hydroclimatological impact of century-long drainage in midwestern United States: CCSM sensitivity experiments

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 115, Issue 14, 2010, Pages

  Kumar, Sanjiv ^a   Merwade, Venkatesh ^a   Lee, Wonjun ^b   Zhao, Lan ^c   Song, Carol ^c  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Purdue University   (United States)

^c Purdue University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY; GAS EMISSIONS; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; HEAT FLUX; LATENT HEAT; MODEL STRUCTURES; SUN; WETLANDS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC COMPONENTS; CLIMATIC VARIABLES; COMMUNITY CLIMATE SYSTEM MODEL; CONTROL MODEL; CONVECTIVE PRECIPITATION; HIGH RESOLUTION; HORIZONTAL GRID; HYDROCLIMATOLOGY; LAND SURFACE; MESH SIZE; NEAR-SURFACE; NET RADIATION; NORTH AMERICAN; REANALYSIS; SENSIBLE AND LATENT HEAT FLUXES; SHORT-WAVE RADIATION; SUMMER PRECIPITATION; VALIDATION RESULTS; WETLAND DRAINAGE;

EXPERIMENTS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATOLOGY; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; DRAINAGE; GREENHOUSE GAS; HEAT FLUX; HYDROLOGY; LAND SURFACE; NET RADIATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RESOLUTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOLAR RADIATION; WETLAND;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 77955204978     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JD013228     Document Type: Article

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