Warm‐season rainfall variability over the US Great Plains and its correlation with evapotranspiration in a climate simulation

W Wu, RE Dickinson - Geophysical Research Letters, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
The warm‐season rainfall variability over the US Great Plains is examined in a climate
simulation and compared with observations to explore the role of land‐atmosphere …

Diagnosis and attribution of a seasonal precipitation deficit in a US regional climate simulation

WJ Gutowski Jr, FO Otieno, RW Arritt… - Journal of …, 2004 - journals.ametsoc.org
Precipitation from a 10-yr regional climate simulation is evaluated using three
complementary analyses: self-organizing maps, bias scores, and arithmetic bias …

Relative contributions of land and ocean processes to precipitation variability

RD Koster, MJ Suarez - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 1995 - Wiley Online Library
A series of general circulation model simulations are used to quantify the relative
contributions of land surface and ocean variability to variability in precipitation. The …

[HTML][HTML] The influence of land surface moisture retention on precipitation statistics

RD Koster, MJ Suarez - Journal of Climate, 1996 - journals.ametsoc.org
The retention of precipitation water in land surface reservoirs damps higher frequencies of
evaporation variability and can thereby influence the feedback of evaporation on …

[HTML][HTML] Modeling the effect of land surface evaporation variability on precipitation variability. Part I: General response

O Reale, P Dirmeyer - Journal of Hydrometeorology, 2002 - journals.ametsoc.org
Modeling the Effect of Land Surface Evaporation Variability on Precipitation Variability. Part I:
General Response in: Journal of Hydrometeorology Volume 3 Issue 4 (2002) Jump to …

Observational evidence that soil moisture variations affect precipitation

RD Koster, MJ Suarez, RW Higgins… - Geophysical …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Land‐atmosphere feedback, by which precipitation‐induced soil moisture anomalies affect
subsequent precipitation, may be an important element of Earth's climate system, but its very …

Simulation of potential impacts of man‐made land use changes on US summer climate under various synoptic regimes

Z Pan, E Takle, M Segal, R Arritt - Journal of Geophysical …, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
This study evaluates impacts of land use changes due to human settlement on regional
summer climate over the central and western United States by performing 30‐day …

Robust spring drying in the southwestern US and seasonal migration of wet/dry patterns in a warmer climate

Y Gao, LR Leung, J Lu, Y Liu… - Geophysical Research …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
This study compares climate simulations over North America produced by a regional climate
model with the driving global climate simulations as well as a multimodel ensemble of global …

Diurnal to annual precipitation sensitivity to convective and land surface schemes

AC Ruane, JO Roads - Earth Interactions, 2008 - journals.ametsoc.org
Precipitation's diurnal to annual variance distribution and atmospheric water cycle
component interactions are examined globally for sensitivity to convective and land surface …

Terrestrial evaporation and moisture drainage in a warmer climate

DJ Short Gianotti, R Akbar, AF Feldman… - Geophysical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
To determine hydrologic changes in a warmer climate, we impose precipitation and potential
evaporation (Eo) perturbations on hydrologic response functions constructed from …