Assessing the Central U.S. Land-Atmosphere Hotspot using Dynamical Adjustment
Abstract
Understanding the influence of soil moisture on near surface temperatures is made more challenging by large-scale, internal atmospheric variability present in the midlatitude summer atmosphere. The method of dynamical adjustment has been developed to characterize and remove temperature variability associated with large-scale circulation patterns, leaving behind variability associated with state of the land surface. In this study, we will evaluate whether dynamical adjustment effectively partitions summer temperature variability into dynamic and thermodynamic components in the Community Earth System Model large ensemble (CESM-LE) and if the removal of dynamical "noise" strengthens the land-atmosphere interaction hotspot "signal" identified in the central United States.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2016
- Bibcode:
- 2016AGUFM.H33K1718M
- Keywords:
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- 3307 Boundary layer processes;
- ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSESDE: 1818 Evapotranspiration;
- HYDROLOGYDE: 1843 Land/atmosphere interactions;
- HYDROLOGYDE: 1866 Soil moisture;
- HYDROLOGY