Contributions of soil moisture interactions to climate change in the tropics in the GLACE–CMIP5 experiment

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 45, Issue 11-12, 2015, Pages 3275-3297

  May, Wilhelm ^a,b   Meier, Arndt ^a   Rummukainen, Markku ^a   Berg, Alexis ^c   Chéruy, Frederique ^d   Hagemann, Stefan ^e  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b DANISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^c Earth Institute   (United States)

^d LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate change; Soil moisture; Soil moisture precipitation coupling; Soil moisture temperature coupling; Tropics

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GLOBAL CLIMATE; LATENT HEAT FLUX; MOISTURE CONTENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; SOIL MOISTURE;

EID: 84947485851     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-015-2538-9     Document Type: Article

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