Diagnosing the strength of land-atmosphere coupling at subseasonal to seasonal time scales in Asia

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 320-339

  Liu, Di ^a,b   Wang, Guiling ^b   Mei, Rui ^b,c   Yu, Zhongbo ^a,d   Gu, Huanghe ^a  

^a HOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^c OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate models; Coupled models; Regional models; Time series

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894040456     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: 15257541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-13-0104.1     Document Type: Article

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