Land–atmospheric feedbacks during droughts and heatwaves: state of the science and current challenges

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1436, Issue 1, 2019, Pages 19-35

  Miralles, Diego G ^a   Gentine, Pierre ^b   Seneviratne, Sonia I ^c   Teuling, Adriaan J ^d  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

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

^c ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

^d WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

drought; heatwave; land feedback; land atmospheric interactions

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; BOUNDARY LAYER; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEM; EVAPORATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; HEAT; HEAT WAVE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; METEOROLOGY; SOIL MOISTURE; STOMATAL CONDUCTANCE; AGRICULTURE; HUMAN; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AGRICULTURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHTS; ECOSYSTEM; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 85060813428     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/nyas.13912     Document Type: Article

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