The impact of spring subsurface soil temperature anomaly in the western U.S. on North American summer precipitation: A case study using regional climate model downscaling

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 117, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Xue, Yongkang ^a   Vasic, Ratko ^b   Janjic, Zavisa ^b   Liu, Y M ^c   Chu, Peter C ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^d NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; GEOTHERMAL SPRINGS; OCEAN CURRENTS; STORMS; TEMPERATURE;

ATMOSPHERIC FLOWS; DOWN-SCALING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLOBAL CLIMATES; LATERAL BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; MEAN FLOW; NORTH AMERICAN; PRECIPITATION ANOMALIES; REANALYSIS; REGIONAL CLIMATE; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; ROSSBY WAVE; SPRING-IN; STEERING FLOW; SUBSURFACE SOIL; SUMMER PRECIPITATION; SURFACE HEATING;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; BOUNDARY CONDITION; CLIMATE MODELING; DOWNSCALING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HEATING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); ROSSBY WAVE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SPRING (SEASON);

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84861956104     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012JD017692     Document Type: Article

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