The complexity of using a feedback parameter to quantify the soil moisture-precipitation relationship

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 117, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Sun, Shanshan ^a   Wang, Guiling ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

FEEDBACK PARAMETERS; INTERANNUAL; LAND SURFACE; LOW FREQUENCY; LOW FREQUENCY VARIABILITY; LOW-FREQUENCY SIGNALS; MODEL OUTPUTS; MODELING FRAMEWORKS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTAL; OBSERVATIONAL DATA; PHYSICALLY BASED; PRECIPITATION VARIABILITY; SOIL MOISTURE DYNAMICS; TIME-SCALES;

SOIL MOISTURE;

AIR-SOIL INTERACTION; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; CLIMATE PREDICTION; COMPLEXITY; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SOIL MOISTURE;

EID: 84862302011     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JD017173     Document Type: Article

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