Impact of soil moisture-atmosphere coupling on European climate extremes and trends in a regional climate model

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 36, Issue 9-10, 2011, Pages 1919-1939

  Jaeger, E B ^a   Seneviratne, S I ^a  

^a Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Climate extremes; Climate trends; Land atmosphere interactions; Regional climate modeling; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELING; EXTREME EVENT; LAND SURFACE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; SOIL MOISTURE; TREND ANALYSIS;

EUROPE;

EID: 79952749115     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-010-0780-8     Document Type: Article

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