Causes of drying trends in northern hemispheric land areas in reconstructed soil moisture data

Climatic Change

Volumn 134, Issue 1-2, 2016, Pages 255-267

  Mueller, Brigitte ^a   Zhang, Xuebin ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; DROUGHT; FOOD SUPPLY; GREENHOUSE GASES; MOISTURE; SOILS; WATER SUPPLY;

ANTHROPOGENIC FORCING; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; ATMOSPHERIC GREENHOUSE; GAS CONCENTRATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; HISTORICAL TRENDS; LAND SURFACE MODELS; WATER AVAILABILITY;

SOIL MOISTURE;

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DROUGHT STRESS; FLOOD; FOOD SECURITY; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HEAT WAVE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; RECONSTRUCTION; SIMULATION; SOIL MOISTURE; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84951568369     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: 15731480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-015-1499-7     Document Type: Article

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