Interplay of climate seasonality and soil moisture-rainfall feedback

Water Resources Research

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 6053-6066

  Yin, Jun ^a   Porporato, Amilcare ^a   Albertson, John ^a  

^a Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

hydro climatic persistence; land atmosphere interaction; pitchfork bifurcation; soil moisture rainfall feedback; stochastic hydrology; stochastic resonance

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RADIATION EFFECTS; RAIN; SOIL MOISTURE; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

HYDRO-CLIMATIC PERSISTENCE; LAND-ATMOSPHERE INTERACTIONS; PITCH-FORK BIFURCATIONS; STOCHASTIC HYDROLOGIES; STOCHASTIC RESONANCES;

SOIL SURVEYS;

EID: 84904530671     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013WR014772     Document Type: Article

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