A review on regional dynamical downscaling in intraseasonal to seasonal simulation/prediction and major factors that affect downscaling ability

Y Xue, Z Janjic, J Dudhia, R Vasic, F De Sales - Atmospheric research, 2014 - Elsevier
Regional climate models (RCMs) have been developed and extensively applied for
dynamically downscaling coarse resolution information from different sources, such as …

[HTML][HTML] Drought and deforestation: has land cover change influenced recent precipitation extremes in the Amazon?

JE Bagley, AR Desai, KJ Harding, PK Snyder… - Journal of …, 2014 - journals.ametsoc.org
Drought and Deforestation: Has Land Cover Change Influenced Recent Precipitation
Extremes in the Amazon? in: Journal of Climate Volume 27 Issue 1 (2014) Jump to Content …

Evaluation of urban surface parameterizations in the WRF model using measurements during the Texas Air Quality Study 2006 field campaign

SH Lee, SW Kim, WM Angevine… - Atmospheric …, 2011 - acp.copernicus.org
The performance of different urban surface parameterizations in the WRF (Weather
Research and Forecasting) in simulating urban boundary layer (UBL) was investigated …

[HTML][HTML] Modeling the atmospheric response to irrigation in the Great Plains. Part I: General impacts on precipitation and the energy budget

KJ Harding, PK Snyder - Journal of Hydrometeorology, 2012 - journals.ametsoc.org
Modeling the Atmospheric Response to Irrigation in the Great Plains. Part I: General Impacts on
Precipitation and the Energy Budget in: Journal of Hydrometeorology Volume 13 Issue 6 (2012) …

Downscaling of SMAP soil moisture using land surface temperature and vegetation data

B Fang, V Lakshmi, R Bindlish… - Vadose Zone …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Core Ideas We present a soil moisture downscaling algorithm based on thermal inertia
theory. Vegetation modulates the soil moisture–surface temperature difference relationship …

Understanding land use change impacts on microclimate using Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model

X Li, C Mitra, L Dong, Q Yang - Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Parts a …, 2018 - Elsevier
To explore potential climatic consequences of land cover change in the Kolkata Metropolitan
Development area, we projected microclimate conditions in this area using the Weather …

Impact of roughness length on WRF simulated land‐atmosphere interactions over a hyper‐arid region

NR Nelli, M Temimi, RM Fonseca… - Earth and Space …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The aerodynamic roughness length is a crucial parameter that controls surface variables
including the horizontal wind, surface temperature, and heat fluxes. Despite its importance …

The effects of Great Plains irrigation on the surface energy balance, regional circulation, and precipitation

DB Huber, DB Mechem, NA Brunsell - Climate, 2014 - mdpi.com
Irrigation provides a needed source of water in regions of low precipitation. Adding water to
a region that would otherwise see little natural precipitation alters the partitioning of surface …

Very high spatial resolution downscaled SMAP radiometer soil moisture in the CONUS using VIIRS/MODIS data

B Fang, V Lakshmi, MH Cosh… - IEEE Journal of Selected …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Satellite remote sensing has been providing passive microwave soil moisture (SM) retrievals
of a global spatial coverage and a high revisit frequency for research and applications in …

Observed surface heat fluxes partitioning during the local growing season over the Tibetan Plateau

M Deng, X Meng, D Sheng, H Niu, P Wu, Z Li… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2024 - Elsevier
Turbulent heat fluxes across the surface are an important mechanism of land-atmosphere
coupling. But there is still a lack of sufficient observational measurements, particularly over …