The subsurface-land surface-atmosphere connection under convective conditions

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 83, Issue , 2015, Pages 240-249

  Rahman, M ^a,d   Sulis, M ^a   Kollet, S J ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^c Centre for High Performance Scientific Computing in Terrestrial System   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Convective precipitation; Coupled modeling; Groundwater dynamics; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BOUNDARY LAYERS; DYNAMICS; GROUNDWATER; MOISTURE; POTENTIAL ENERGY; SOIL MOISTURE; SOILS; SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

ATMOSPHERIC SIMULATIONS; ATMOSPHERIC VARIABILITY; CONVECTIVE AVAILABLE POTENTIAL ENERGIES; CONVECTIVE PRECIPITATION; COUPLED MODELING; ENERGY BALANCE COMPONENTS; GROUNDWATER DYNAMICS; SYSTEMATIC UNCERTAINTIES;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; ENERGY FLUX; GROUNDWATER; LAND SURFACE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SOIL MOISTURE; WATER TABLE;

GERMANY;

EID: 84935495876     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2015.06.003     Document Type: Article

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