Dissecting soil moisture-precipitation coupling

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 19, 2012, Pages

  Wei, Jiangfeng ^a,b   Dirmeyer, Paul A ^a,c  

^a CENTER FOR OCEAN LAND ATMOSPHERE STUDIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISSECTION; WATER SUPPLY;

ATMOSPHERIC PROCESS; CLIMATE REGIME; CLIMATE VARIATION; DRY PERIODS; DRY REGION; LAND AREAS; LOCAL IMPACTS; NONLOCAL; PRINCIPAL FACTORS; REANALYSIS; SPATIAL PATTERNS; WATER VAPOR TRANSPORT; WET REGION;

SOIL MOISTURE;

CLIMATOLOGY; DATA SET; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SOIL MOISTURE; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 84867529937     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL053038     Document Type: Article

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