Observed local and remote influences of vegetation on the atmosphere across North America using a model-validated statistical technique that first excludes oceanic forcings

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 362-382

  Wang, Fuyao ^a   Notaro, Michael ^a   Liu, Zhengyu ^a,b   Chen, Guangshan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Atmosphere land interaction; Boreal meteorology; Interannual variability; Statistics; Vegetation atmosphere interactions

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-LAND INTERACTIONS; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; COMMUNITY CLIMATE SYSTEM MODEL; GENERALIZED EQUILIBRIUMS; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL METHOD; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; VEGETATION-ATMOSPHERE INTERACTIONS;

CLIMATE MODELS; FEEDBACK; METEOROLOGY; SEA LEVEL; STATISTICAL METHODS; STATISTICS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

VEGETATION;

ADVECTION; AIR TEMPERATURE; ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; BOREAL FOREST; CLIMATE MODELING; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; HYDROLOGY; METEOROLOGY; MONSOON; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TELECONNECTION; VEGETATION;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84892474595     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00080.1     Document Type: Article

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