The relationship between spring soil moisture and summer hot extremes over North China

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1660-1668

  Wu, Lingyun ^a   Zhang, Jingyong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

climate prediction; heat waves; hot days; North China; soil moisture

Indexed keywords

EID: 84944446660     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-015-5003-0     Document Type: Article

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