Diagnosing the strength of soil temperature in the land atmosphere interactions over Asia based on RegCM4 model

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 130, Issue , 2015, Pages 7-21

  Liu, Di ^a   Yu, Zhongbo ^a,b   Zhang, Jianyun ^c,d  

^a HOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^c NANJING HYDRAULIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (China)

^d YANGTZE RIVER SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (China)

Author keywords

Climate variables; Land atmosphere coupling; RegCM4; Soil temperature; Soil temperature anomalies

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; HEAT FLUX; NUMERICAL METHODS; SOILS; TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATE VARIABLES; LAND ATMOSPHERE INTERACTION; LAND-ATMOSPHERE COUPLINGS; LARGE-SCALE CIRCULATION; REGCM4; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELING; SOIL TEMPERATURE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS METHODS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; COUPLING; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; HEAT FLUX; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

CHINA; INDIA; INDOCHINA;

EID: 84928107935     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2015.03.007     Document Type: Article

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