Spring land temperature anomalies in northwestern US and the summer drought over Southern Plains and adjacent areas

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Xue, Yongkang ^a   Oaida, Catalina M ^a   Diallo, Ismaila ^a   Neelin, J David ^a   Li, Suosuo ^a,b   De Sales, Fernando ^a,c   Gu, Yu ^a   Robinson, David A ^d   Vasic, Ratko ^e   Yi, Lan ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Chinese Academy of Sciences ^*  (China)

^c SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

^f STATE KEY LABORATORY OF SEVERE WEATHER   (China)

Author keywords

land temperature; regional climate model; sea surface temperature; southern great plains; US drought and heat

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; DROUGHT; LANDFORMS; OCEANOGRAPHY; RAIN; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WATERS;

CLIMATE OBSERVATIONS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; OCEAN SURFACE TEMPERATURE; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SOUTHERN GREAT PLAINS; SURFACE TEMPERATURE CHANGES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE MODELING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; LAND SURFACE; RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

GREAT PLAINS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84964792458     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/11/4/044018     Document Type: Article

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