Quantifying the land-atmosphere coupling behavior in modern reanalysis products over the U.S. southern great plains

Journal of Climate

Volumn 28, Issue 14, 2015, Pages 5813-5829

  Santanello, Joseph A ^a   Roundy, Joshua ^a   Dirmeyer, Paul A ^b  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmosphere land interaction; Boundary layer; Drought; Hydrometeorology; Interannual variability; Reanalysis data

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; DROUGHT; EVAPORATION; MOISTURE; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SOIL MOISTURE;

ATMOSPHERE-LAND INTERACTIONS; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; LAND-ATMOSPHERE COUPLINGS; PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYERS; REANALYSIS; RESEARCH AND APPLICATION; RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS;

LANDFORMS;

ANNUAL VARIATION; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DROUGHT; EVAPORATION; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; SOIL MOISTURE;

GREAT PLAINS;

EID: 84942843891     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00680.1     Document Type: Article

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