What caused the spring intensification and winter demise of the 2011 drought over Texas?

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 47, Issue 9-10, 2016, Pages 3077-3090

  Fernando, D Nelun ^a,b,c   Mo, Kingtse C ^d   Fu, Rong ^b   Pu, Bing ^b,h   Bowerman, Adam ^b   Scanlon, Bridget R ^e   Solis, Ruben S ^c   Yin, Lei ^b   Mace, Robert E ^c   Mioduszewski, John R ^f,i   Ren, Tong ^b,g   Zhang, Kai ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c Texas Water Development Board   (United States)

^d CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^f RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Convective inhibition; Drought; La Ni a; Soil moisture; Spring intensification; Texas

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BOWEN RATIO; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; DROUGHT; GEOPOTENTIAL; LA NINA; SOIL MOISTURE; SPRING (SEASON); WINTER;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84958739875     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-016-3014-x     Document Type: Article

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