The convective instability pathway to warm season drought in Texas. Part I: The role of convective inhibition and its modulation by soil moisture

Journal of Climate

Volumn 23, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 4461-4473

  Myoung, Boksoon ^a,b   Nielsen Gammon, John W ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Ewha Womans University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PROCESS; BACK TRAJECTORY ANALYSIS; CONVECTIVE AVAILABLE POTENTIAL ENERGIES; CONVECTIVE INHIBITION; CONVECTIVE INSTABILITIES; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEWPOINT TEMPERATURE; DYNAMICAL MECHANISMS; FORCINGS; MEAN PRECIPITATION; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PHYSICAL PROCESS; PRECIPITABLE WATER; PRECIPITATION DATA; PRECIPITATION DEFICITS; REANALYSIS; STRONG CORRELATION; SURFACE DEWPOINT; SURFACE-BASED; TIME-SCALES; UNDERLYING DYNAMICS; WARM SEASONS;

DROUGHT; LINEAR REGRESSION; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; SOIL MOISTURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; DROUGHT; POTENTIAL ENERGY; PRECIPITABLE WATER; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOIL MOISTURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77958092440     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JCLI2946.1     Document Type: Article

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