Reduction of tropical land region precipitation variability via transpiration

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 19, 2012, Pages

  Lee, Jung Eun ^a,b   Lintner, Benjamin R ^c   Neelin, J David ^d   Jiang, Xianan ^b   Gentine, Pierre ^e   Boyce, C Kevin ^f   Fisher, Joshua B ^a   Perron, J Taylor ^g   Kubar, Terence L ^h   Lee, Jeonghoon ⁱ   Worden, John ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Los Angeles   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^g MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^h Department of Mechanical Engineering   (United States)

ⁱ Korea Polar Research Institute (KOPRI)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); TROPICS;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; DYNAMICAL PROCESS; HIGHLY-CORRELATED; INTENSE PRECIPITATION; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MEAN PRECIPITATION; MODEL RESULTS; NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCHES; NEAR-SURFACE; OCEANIC AREA; PRECIPITATION VARIABILITY; SURFACE TURBULENT FLUXES; TROPICAL LANDS; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST; WIND SPEED;

TRANSPIRATION;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; DISTURBANCE; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFOREST; SOLAR POWER; TRANSPIRATION; TROPICAL REGION; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 84867526086     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL053417     Document Type: Article

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