Diagnosing atmosphere-land feedbacks in CMIP5 climate models

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Williams, C J R ^a   Allan, R P ^a   Kniveton, D R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

atmosphere land surface feedback; CMIP5; tropics

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; FEEDBACK; LASERS; RAIN; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; TROPICS;

CMIP5; LINEAR GRADIENTS; NEAR SURFACE TEMPERATURE; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; PROCESS UNDERSTANDING; SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE MODELING; CONVECTION; HETEROGENEITY; LAND SURFACE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; SATELLITE DATA; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84867787193     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/7/4/044003     Document Type: Article

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