Impacts of soil-aquifer heat and water fluxes on simulated global climate

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1963-1974

  Krakauer, N Y ^a   Puma, M J ^b   Cook, B I ^b  

^a City College of New York   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; MODEL REPRESENTATION; SEASONAL AMPLITUDES; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES; WATER AND HEAT FLUXES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; HEAT FLUX; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

AQUIFERS;

ANNUAL VARIATION; AQUIFER; BOUNDARY CONDITION; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; FLUX MEASUREMENT; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLOBAL CLIMATE; LAND SURFACE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEASONALITY; SOIL COLUMN; SOIL WATER; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TIMESCALE;

EID: 84879042673     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-17-1963-2013     Document Type: Article

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