Quantifying the strength of land–atmosphere coupling in the 2004 North American monsoon

Atmospheric Science Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 391-397

  Feng, Xia ^a   Houser, Paul ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ensemble model; North American monsoon; simulations Land atmosphere coupling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84977742859     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1530261X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ASL2.573     Document Type: Article

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