Toward understanding the large-scale land-atmosphere coupling in the models: Roles of different processes

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 19, 2010, Pages

  Wei, Jiangfeng ^a   Dirmeyer, Paul A ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH ATMOSPHERE; SOIL MOISTURE;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; COUPLING STRENGTHS; DIFFERENT PROCESS; LAND SURFACE SCHEME; MODEL COMPONENTS; MODEL CONFIGURATION; PRECIPITATION VARIABILITY;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

AIR-SOIL INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-BIOSPHERE INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LAND SURFACE; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; PREDICTION; SOIL MOISTURE;

EID: 77958509210     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL044769     Document Type: Article

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