Intraseasonal versus interannual measures of land-atmosphere coupling strength in a global climate model: GLACE-1 versus GLACE-CMIP5 experiments in ACCESS1.3b

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 2276-2295

  Lorenz, Ruth ^a   Pitman, Andrew J ^a   Hirsch, Annette L ^a   Srbinovsky, Jhan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Atmosphere land interaction; Climate models; Interannual variability; Intraseasonal variability; Soil moisture; Temperature

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE MODELING; COUPLING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GLOBAL CLIMATE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84947074996     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: 15257541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-14-0206.1     Document Type: Article

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