An underestimated role of precipitation frequency in regulating summer soil moisture

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Wu, Chaoyang ^a   Chen, Jing M ^a   Pumpanen, Jukka ^b   Cescatti, Alessandro ^c   Marcolla, Barbara ^d   Blanken, Peter D ^e   Ardö, Jonas ^f   Tang, Yanhong ^g   Magliulo, Vincenzo ^h   Georgiadis, Teodoro ⁱ   Soegaard, Henrik ^j   Cook, David R ^k   Harding, Richard J ^l  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^d RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CENTRE   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^f LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^g NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^h CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

ⁱ CNR   (Italy)

^j UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^k ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^l CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

climate change; plant functional types; precipitation frequency; summer drought

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860850412     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/7/2/024011     Document Type: Article

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