Climate variability attributable to terrestrial and oceanic forcing in the NCAR CAM3-CLM3 Models

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 42, Issue 7-8, 2014, Pages 2067-2078

  Sun, Shanshan ^a,b   Wang, Guiling ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate variability; Land atmosphere interactions; Soil moisture feedback; Vegetation feedback

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERE-BIOSPHERE INTERACTION; CLIMATE VARIATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL MOISTURE; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

AMAZONIA; GREAT PLAINS;

EID: 84897576235     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-013-1913-7     Document Type: Article

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