Land-atmosphere interactions the LoCo perspective

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 99, Issue 6, 2018, Pages 1253-1272

  Santanello, Joseph A ^a   Dirmeyer, Paul A ^b   Ferguson, Craig R ^c   Findell, Kirsten L ^d   Tawfik, Ahmed B ^e   Berg, Alexis ^f   Ek, Michael ^g   Gentine, Pierre ^h   Guillod, Benoit P ⁱ   Van Heerwaarden, Chiel ^j   Roundy, Joshua ^k   Wulfmeyer, Volker ^l  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR OCEAN LAND ATMOSPHERE STUDIES   (United States)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^e NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^f Princeton University   (United States)

^g CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

^h Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

ⁱ ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

^j WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^k University of Kansas   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METEOROLOGY;

LAND ATMOSPHERE INTERACTION; WORKING GROUPS;

EARTH ATMOSPHERE;

EID: 85042676394     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-17-0001.1     Document Type: Review

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