Comparing evaporative sources of terrestrial precipitation and their extremes in MERRA using relative entropy

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 102-116

  Dirmeyer, Paul A ^a,b   Wei, Jiangfeng ^c   Bosilovich, Michael G ^d   Mocko, David M ^d,e  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR OCEAN LAND ATMOSPHERE STUDIES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^e SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Drought; Evaporation; Flood events; Lagrangian circulation transport; Moisture moisture budget; Precipitation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894079037     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: 15257541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-13-053.1     Document Type: Article

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