Soil moisture-vegetation-precipitation feedback over North America: Its sensitivity to soil moisture climatology

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 117, Issue 17, 2012, Pages

  Kim, Yeonjoo ^a,b   Wang, Guiling ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b Korea Environment Institute (KEI)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; PHENOLS; SOIL MOISTURE; VEGETATION; PARAMETERIZATION; RUNOFF;

BASELINE MODELS; DRY AND WET; DRY SOIL; LAND MODEL; LATERAL DRAINAGE; PRECIPITATION CHANGE; SUMMER PRECIPITATION; TIME-SCALES; VEGETATION FEEDBACKS; FEEDBACK PROCESS; GLOBAL MODELS; LAND SURFACE PARAMETERIZATION; LAND-ATMOSPHERE COUPLINGS;

FEEDBACK;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BASELINE CONDITIONS; DRAINAGE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; PHENOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOIL MOISTURE; TIMESCALE; VEGETATION; CLIMATOLOGY; RUNOFF; SUMMER;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 84867270465     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012JD017584     Document Type: Article

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