Seasonal to multi-year soil moisture drought forecasting

M Esit, S Kumar, A Pandey, DM Lawrence… - npj Climate and …, 2021 - nature.com
Soil moisture predictability on seasonal to decadal (S2D) continuum timescales over North
America is examined from the Community Earth System Modeling (CESM) experiments. The …

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 …

Advancements in decadal climate predictability: The role of nonoceanic drivers

A Bellucci, R Haarsma, N Bellouin… - Reviews of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
We review recent progress in understanding the role of sea ice, land surface, stratosphere,
and aerosols in decadal‐scale predictability and discuss the perspectives for improving the …

ESM-SnowMIP: assessing snow models and quantifying snow-related climate feedbacks

G Krinner, C Derksen, R Essery… - Geoscientific Model …, 2018 - gmd.copernicus.org
This paper describes ESM-SnowMIP, an international coordinated modelling effort to
evaluate current snow schemes, including snow schemes that are included in Earth system …

LS3MIP (v1. 0) contribution to CMIP6: the Land Surface, Snow and Soil moisture Model Intercomparison Project–aims, setup and expected outcome

B Van den Hurk, H Kim, G Krinner… - Geoscientific Model …, 2016 - gmd.copernicus.org
The Land Surface, Snow and Soil Moisture Model Intercomparison Project (LS3MIP) is
designed to provide a comprehensive assessment of land surface, snow and soil moisture …

[HTML][HTML] Impacts of local soil moisture anomalies on the atmospheric circulation and on remote surface meteorological fields during boreal summer: A comprehensive …

RD Koster, Y Chang, H Wang… - Journal of Climate, 2016 - journals.ametsoc.org
Impacts of Local Soil Moisture Anomalies on the Atmospheric Circulation and on Remote Surface
Meteorological Fields during Boreal Summer: A Comprehensive Analysis over North America …

Verification of land–atmosphere coupling in forecast models, reanalyses, and land surface models using flux site observations

PA Dirmeyer, L Chen, J Wu, CS Shin… - Journal of …, 2018 - journals.ametsoc.org
This study compares four model systems in three configurations (LSM, LSM+ GCM, and
reanalysis) with global flux tower observations to validate states, surface fluxes, and …

Revisiting trends in wetness and dryness in the presence of internal climate variability and water limitations over land

S Kumar, RP Allan, F Zwiers… - Geophysical …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
A theoretically expected consequence of the intensification of the hydrological cycle under
global warming is that on average, wet regions get wetter and dry regions get drier (WWDD) …

Terrestrial contribution to the heterogeneity in hydrological changes under global warming

S Kumar, F Zwiers, PA Dirmeyer… - Water Resources …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
This study investigates a physical basis for heterogeneity in hydrological changes, which
suggests a greater detectability in wet than dry regions. Wet regions are those where …

[HTML][HTML] Sensitivity of numerical weather forecasts to initial soil moisture variations in CFSv2

PA Dirmeyer, S Halder - Weather and Forecasting, 2016 - journals.ametsoc.org
When initial soil moisture is perturbed among ensemble members in the operational NWS
global forecast model, surface latent and sensible fluxes are immediately affected much …