Role of land-atmosphere coupling in summer droughts and floods over eastern China for the 1998 and 1999 cases

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 58, Issue 32, 2013, Pages 3978-3985

  Wu, LingYun ^a   Zhang, JingYong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

climate disasters; droughts; floods; regional climate modeling; soil moisture feedbacks

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887477669     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-013-5855-6     Document Type: Article

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