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gfdl on-line bibliography > 2004 citations
Regions of strong coupling between soil moisture and precipitation
| The GLACE Team: Koster, R. D., P. A. Dirmeyer, Z. Guo, G. Bonan, E. Chan, P. Cox, and C. T. Gordon, et al., 2004: Regions of strong coupling between soil moisture and precipitation. Science, 305(5687), 1138-1140. |
| Abstract: 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 |