Seasonal drought prediction: Advances, challenges, and future prospects

Z Hao, VP Singh, Y Xia - Reviews of Geophysics, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Drought prediction is of critical importance to early warning for drought managements. This
review provides a synthesis of drought prediction based on statistical, dynamical, and hybrid …

Multi-sensor remote sensing for drought characterization: current status, opportunities and a roadmap for the future

W Jiao, L Wang, MF McCabe - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Satellite based remote sensing offers one of the few approaches able to monitor the spatial
and temporal development of regional to continental scale droughts. A unique element of …

Land–atmosphere interactions: The LoCo perspective

JA Santanello Jr, PA Dirmeyer… - Bulletin of the …, 2018 - journals.ametsoc.org
Land–atmosphere (LA) interactions are a main driver of Earth's surface water and energy
budgets; as such, they modulate near-surface climate, including clouds and precipitation …

[HTML][HTML] Sensitivity of land–atmosphere coupling strength to changing atmospheric temperature and moisture over Europe

L Jach, T Schwitalla, O Branch… - Earth System …, 2022 - esd.copernicus.org
The quantification of land–atmosphere coupling strength is still challenging, particularly in
the atmospheric segment of the local coupling process chain. This is in part caused by a lack …

[HTML][HTML] Global evaluation of terrestrial near-surface air temperature and specific humidity retrievals from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS)

J Sun, KA McColl, Y Wang, AJ Rigden, H Lu… - Remote Sensing of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Global observations of near-surface air temperature and specific humidity over land are
needed for a variety of applications, including to constrain global estimates of …

A Novel Method for Diagnosing Land–Atmosphere Coupling Sensitivity in a Single-Column Model

FM Hay-Chapman, PA Dirmeyer - Journal of …, 2023 - journals.ametsoc.org
The response of boundary layer properties and cloudiness to changes in surface
evaporative fraction (EF) is investigated in a single-column model to quantify the locally …

Using ARM observations to evaluate climate model simulations of land‐atmosphere coupling on the US Southern Great Plains

TJ Phillips, SA Klein, HY Ma, Q Tang… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Several independent measurements of warm‐season soil moisture and surface atmospheric
variables recorded at the ARM Southern Great Plains (SGP) research facility are used to …

Atmospheric boundary layer dynamics from balloon soundings worldwide: CLASS4GL v1. 0

H Wouters, IY Petrova… - Geoscientific Model …, 2019 - gmd.copernicus.org
The coupling between soil, vegetation and atmosphere is thought to be crucial in the
development and intensification of weather extremes, especially meteorological droughts …

Influence of lower-tropospheric moisture on local soil moisture–precipitation feedback over the US Southern Great Plains

G Wang, R Fu, Y Zhuang, PA Dirmeyer… - Atmospheric …, 2024 - acp.copernicus.org
Abstract​​​​​​​ Land–atmosphere coupling (LAC) has long been studied, focusing on
land surface and atmospheric boundary layer processes. However, the influence of humidity …

Evaluation of a land–atmosphere coupling metric computed from a ground-based infrared interferometer

RA Wakefield, DD Turner… - Journal of …, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
Land–atmosphere feedbacks are a critical component of the hydrologic cycle. Vertical
profiles of boundary layer temperature and moisture, together with information about the …