Impact of initial soil moisture anomalies on climate mean and extremes over Asia

Journal of Geophysical Research

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 529-545

  Liu, Di ^a,b   Wang, Guiling ^b   Mei, Rui ^c   Yu, Zhongbo ^a,d   Yu, Miao ^b,e  

^a HOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^c OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^e NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; EXPERIMENTS; SOIL MOISTURE;

ASIA; CLIMATE EXTREMES; CLIMATE MEAN; HIGH-LATITUDE REGIONS; INITIAL SOIL MOISTURE; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELING; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; EXTREME EVENT; FLOOD; LATITUDE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; SOIL MOISTURE;

ASIA; SIBERIA;

EID: 84900676305     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: 21562202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013JD020890     Document Type: Article

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