Data length requirements for observational estimates of land-atmosphere coupling strength

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1615-1635

  Findell, Kirsten L ^a   Gentine, Pierre ^b,c   Lintner, Benjamin R ^d   Guillod, Benoit P ^e,f  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^d RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atmosphere land interaction; Interannual variability; Sampling; Statistics

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE MODELING; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SAMPLING; STRENGTH; TIME SERIES;

EID: 84941265756     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: 15257541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-14-0131.1     Document Type: Article

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