Detecting soil moisture impacts on convective initiation in Europe

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 4631-4638

  Taylor, Christopher M ^a,b  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b National Centre for Earth Observation   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

convective initiation; soil moisture

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; MOISTURE; SOILS; SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

CONVECTIVE INITIATION; HORIZONTAL VARIABILITY; HYDROCLIMATIC VARIABILITY; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; MESOSCALE CIRCULATION; OBSERVATIONAL ANALYSIS; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS;

SOIL MOISTURE;

CLIMATE FORCING; CONVECTION; CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; DETECTION METHOD; LAND SURFACE; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SATELLITE DATA; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TRIGGER MECHANISM;

EUROPE;

EID: 84934441377     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL064030     Document Type: Article

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