Snow-atmosphere coupling strength in a global atmospheric model

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 13, 2011, Pages

  Xu, Li ^a,b   Dirmeyer, Paul ^b  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS; SOIL MOISTURE;

ALBEDO EFFECTS; COMMUNITY ATMOSPHERIC MODEL; COMMUNITY LAND MODELS; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; COUPLING STRENGTHS; ENSEMBLE STATISTICS; GLOBAL ATMOSPHERIC MODELS; HYDROLOGICAL EFFECTS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; RADIATIVE IMPACTS; SNOW COVERS; SNOWMELT; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION;

SNOW;

ALBEDO; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; INDEX METHOD; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADIATIVE FORCING; SNOW COVER; SNOWMELT; SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 79959920886     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL048049     Document Type: Article

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