Reconciling spatial and temporal soil moisture effects on afternoon rainfall

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Guillod, Benoit P ^a,e   Orlowsky, Boris ^a   Miralles, Diego G ^b,c   Teuling, Adriaan J ^d   Seneviratne, Sonia I ^a  

^a Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^d WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

CORRELATION; HETEROGENEITY; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; PRECIPITATION; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE SOIL; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84924353783     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7443     Document Type: Article

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