Influence of the background wind on the local soil moisture-precipitation feedback

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 782-799

  Froidevaux, Paul ^a,b   Schlemmer, Linda ^c   Schmidli, Juerg ^a   Langhans, Wolfgang ^d,e   Schar̈, Christoph ^a  

^a Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^d LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e Centre for Climate Systems Modeling (C2SM)   (Switzerland)

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EID: 84893846225     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: 15200469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-13-0180.1     Document Type: Article

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