Soil moisture-precipitation feedback processes in the Indian summer monsoon season

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1461-1474

  Asharaf, Shakeel ^a   Dobler, Andreas ^a,b   Ahrens, Bodo ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; MONSOON; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; SEASON; SOIL MOISTURE; SUMMER;

EID: 84869435968     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: 15257541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-12-06.1     Document Type: Article

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