Land-atmosphere coupling and summer climate variability over East Asia

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 116, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Zhang, Jingyong ^a   Wu, Lingyun ^a   Dong, Wenjie ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CONTROL EXPERIMENTS; DOMINANT CONTRIBUTIONS; EAST ASIA; EASTERN TIBETAN PLATEAU; ECOLOGICAL TRANSITION ZONES; FULLY-COUPLED; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; LAND SURFACE MODELS; LONG TERM SIMULATION; MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE; MEAN TEMPERATURE; MONGOLIA; NORTHEAST CHINA; NORTHERN CHINA; PHYSICAL PROCESS; PRECIPITATION VARIABILITY; SIBERIA; SOUTH ASIA; SUMMER CLIMATE; SURFACE FLUX; TIME STEP; TOTAL VARIANCE; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS; WESTERN CHINA;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

AIR-SOIL INTERACTION; ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; LAND SURFACE; MOISTURE CONTENT; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SOIL MOISTURE; SUMMER; SURFACE FLUX; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TRANSITION ZONE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

FAR EAST;

EID: 79952769310     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JD014714     Document Type: Article

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