Snow-atmosphere coupling strength. Part I: Effect of model biases

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 389-403

  Xu, Li ^a,b   Dirmeyer, Paul ^b  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Atmosphere land interaction; Climate variability; Coupled models; Land surface model; Snow cover; Snowpack

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERE-BIOSPHERE INTERACTION; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COUPLING; DATA ASSIMILATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SATELLITE DATA; SNOW COVER; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 84876711953     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: 15257541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-11-0102.1     Document Type: Article

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