Influence of land-atmosphere feedbacks on temperature and precipitation extremes in the GLACE-CMIP5 ensemble

Journal of Geophysical Research

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 607-623

  Lorenz, Ruth ^a   Argüeso, Daniel ^a   Donat, Markus G ^a   Pitman, Andrew J ^a   Hurk, Bart Van Den ^b   Berg, Alexis ^c   Lawrence, David M ^d   Chéruy, Frédérique ^e   Ducharne, Agnès ^f   Hagemann, Stefan ^g   Meier, Arndt ^h   Milly, P C D ⁱ   Seneviratne, Sonia I ^a,j  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^c Earth Institute   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^e LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

^f SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^g MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^h LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

ⁱ U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^j Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; CLIMATE MODELING; COUPLING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; EXTREME EVENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; SOIL MOISTURE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TREND ANALYSIS;

AUSTRALIA; MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

EID: 84958259459     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: 21562202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015JD024053     Document Type: Article

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