Afternoon rain more likely over drier soils

Nature

Volumn 489, Issue 7416, 2012, Pages 423-426

  Taylor, Christopher M ^a   De Jeu, Richard A M ^b   Guichard, Françoise ^c   Harris, Phil P ^a   Dorigo, Wouter A ^d  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^d VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

AIR-SOIL INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; DROUGHT; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; HUMIDITY; LAND SURFACE; LATENT HEAT FLUX; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADIATIVE TRANSFER; RAINFALL; SEMIARID REGION; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL WATER; SURFACE FLUX; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROUGHT; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SOIL MOISTURE; THERMODYNAMICS; WEATHER;

ATMOSPHERE; CLIMATE; DESERT CLIMATE; DESICCATION; DROUGHTS; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDBACK; GEOGRAPHY; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMIDITY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RAIN; SOIL; TIME FACTORS; WATER;

EID: 84866506610     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11377     Document Type: Article

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