Summer land-Atmosphere coupling strength over the united states: Results from the regional climate model RegCM4-CLM3.5

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 946-962

  Mei, Rui ^a   Wang, Guiling ^a   Gu, Huanghe ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b HOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-BIOSPHERE INTERACTION; CLIMATE MODELING; LAND SURFACE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; SOIL MOISTURE; SUMMER;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84881539911     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: 15257541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-12-043.1     Document Type: Article

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