Spring soil moisture-precipitation feedback in the Southern Great Plains: How is it related to large-scale atmospheric conditions?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1283-1289

  Su, Hua ^a   Yang, Zong Liang ^a   Dickinson, Robert E ^a   Wei, Jiangfeng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

land atmosphere interaction; precipitation; soil moisture precipitation feedback; Southern Great Plains

Indexed keywords

LANDFORMS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SOIL MOISTURE; TROPOSPHERE; VELOCITY;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; LAND-ATMOSPHERE INTERACTIONS; MOISTURE CONDITIONS; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELING; SOUTHERN GREAT PLAINS; TROPOSPHERIC MOISTURE;

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE MODELING; DISTURBANCE; EDDY; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; MOISTURE CONTENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; SOIL MOISTURE;

GREAT PLAINS;

EID: 84894246973     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013GL058931     Document Type: Article

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