| Literature DB >> 15326351 |
Randal D Koster1, Paul A Dirmeyer, Zhichang Guo, Gordon Bonan, Edmond Chan, Peter Cox, C T Gordon, Shinjiro Kanae, Eva Kowalczyk, David Lawrence, Ping Liu, Cheng-Hsuan Lu, Sergey Malyshev, Bryant McAvaney, Ken Mitchell, David Mocko, Taikan Oki, Keith Oleson, Andrew Pitman, Y C Sud, Christopher M Taylor, Diana Verseghy, Ratko Vasic, Yongkang Xue, Tomohito Yamada.
Abstract
Previous estimates of land-atmosphere interaction (the impact of soil moisture on precipitation) have been limited by a lack of observational data and by the model dependence of computational estimates. To counter the second limitation, a dozen climate-modeling groups have recently performed the same highly controlled numerical experiment as part of a coordinated comparison project. This allows a multimodel estimation of the regions on Earth where precipitation is affected by soil moisture anomalies during Northern Hemisphere summer. Potential benefits of this estimation may include improved seasonal rainfall forecasts.Entities:
Year: 2004 PMID: 15326351 DOI: 10.1126/science.1100217
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Science ISSN: 0036-8075 Impact factor: 47.728