Overview of Land-Precipitation Coupling
Abstract
Land-precipitation coupling has been extensively studied in the past century, using ideas ranging from water balance, isotopic tracer, precipitation recycling, numerical water vapor tracer, and model sensitivity. These efforts will be briefly overviewed in the first part of this talk. Then I will discuss our recent and ongoing work on soil water memory and the development of a preliminary new indicator to quantify the strength of land-precipitation coupling and its seasonal variation over global land.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2006
- Bibcode:
- 2006AGUFM.A54A..01Z
- Keywords:
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- 1818 Evapotranspiration;
- 1840 Hydrometeorology;
- 3322 Land/atmosphere interactions (1218;
- 1631;
- 1843);
- 3354 Precipitation (1854)