Summer land-atmosphere coupling strength in the United States: Comparison among observations, reanalysis data, and numerical models

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1010-1022

  Mei, Rui ^a   Wang, Guiling ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate variability

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-BIOSPHERE INTERACTION; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLIMATE VARIATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRELATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SOIL MOISTURE; SUMMER;

GREAT PLAINS; MIDWEST; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84862294023     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: 15257541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-11-075.1     Document Type: Article

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