Publication Date:
2004-08-25
Description:
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.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Koster, Randal D -- Dirmeyer, Paul A -- Guo, Zhichang -- Bonan, Gordon -- Chan, Edmond -- Cox, Peter -- Gordon, C T -- Kanae, Shinjiro -- Kowalczyk, Eva -- Lawrence, David -- Liu, Ping -- Lu, Cheng-Hsuan -- Malyshev, Sergey -- McAvaney, Bryant -- Mitchell, Ken -- Mocko, David -- Oki, Taikan -- Oleson, Keith -- Pitman, Andrew -- Sud, Y C -- Taylor, Christopher M -- Verseghy, Diana -- Vasic, Ratko -- Xue, Yongkang -- Yamada, Tomohito -- GLACE Team -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2004 Aug 20;305(5687):1138-40.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA. randal.d.koster@nasa.gov〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15326351" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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