On the relationship of soil moisture and extreme temperatures in East China

Earth Interactions

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-20

  Meng, Lei ^a   Shen, Yanjun ^b  

^a WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

East China; Heat waves; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

ANTECEDENT SOIL MOISTURE; DAILY TEMPERATURE RANGES; EAST CHINA; EXTREME TEMPERATURES; HEAT WAVES; SENSIBLE AND LATENT HEAT FLUXES; STANDARDIZED PRECIPITATION INDEX; SURFACE TEMPERATURES;

SOIL MOISTURE;

BOUNDARY LAYER; EXTREME EVENT; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LATENT HEAT FLUX; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

CHINA;

EID: 84892723517     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: 10873562     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2013EI000551.1     Document Type: Article

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