Temporal variability of land-Atmosphere coupling and its implications for drought over the Southeast United States

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 622-635

  Roundy, Joshua K ^a   Ferguson, Craig R ^b   Wood, Eric F ^a  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atmosphere land interaction; Drought

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876792984     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: 15257541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-12-090.1     Document Type: Article

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