Investigating soil moisture–climate interactions in a changing climate: A review

SI Seneviratne, T Corti, EL Davin, M Hirschi… - Earth-Science …, 2010 - Elsevier
Soil moisture is a key variable of the climate system. It constrains plant transpiration and
photosynthesis in several regions of the world, with consequent impacts on the water …

Oceanic and terrestrial sources of continental precipitation

L Gimeno, A Stohl, RM Trigo, F Dominguez… - Reviews of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The most important sources of atmospheric moisture at the global scale are herein identified,
both oceanic and terrestrial, and a characterization is made of how continental regions are …

Interannual variability of Greenland winter precipitation sources: Lagrangian moisture diagnostic and North Atlantic Oscillation influence

H Sodemann, C Schwierz… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
We present a new Lagrangian diagnostic for identifying the sources of water vapor for
precipitation. Unlike previous studies, the method allows for a quantitative demarcation of …

[HTML][HTML] A Lagrangian analysis of the atmospheric branch of the global water cycle. Part I: Method description, validation, and demonstration for the August 2002 …

A Stohl, P James - Journal of Hydrometeorology, 2004 - journals.ametsoc.org
A Lagrangian Analysis of the Atmospheric Branch of the Global Water Cycle. Part I: Method
Description, Validation, and Demonstration for the August 2002 Flooding in Central Europe in …

[HTML][HTML] Precipitation, recycling, and land memory: An integrated analysis

PA Dirmeyer, CA Schlosser… - Journal of …, 2009 - journals.ametsoc.org
A synthesis of several approaches to quantifying land–atmosphere interactions is presented.
These approaches use data from observations or atmospheric reanalyses applied to …

Deuterium excess in precipitation of Alpine regions–moisture recycling

K Froehlich, M Kralik, W Papesch, D Rank… - … in Environmental and …, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
The paper evaluates long-term seasonal variations of the deuterium excess (d-excess=
δ2H− 8… δ18O) in precipitation of stations located north and south of the main ridge of the …

Variability of the Caribbean low-level jet and its relations to climate

C Wang - Climate dynamics, 2007 - Springer
A maximum of easterly zonal wind at 925 hPa in the Caribbean region is called the
Caribbean Low-Level Jet (CLLJ). Observations show that the easterly CLLJ varies semi …

The intra‐Americas sea low‐level jet: Overview and future research

JA Amador - Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
A relevant climate feature of the Intra‐Americas Sea (IAS) is the low‐level jet (IALLJ)
dominating the IAS circulation, both in summer and winter; and yet it is practically unknown …

[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 …

Impact of atmospheric moisture storage on precipitation recycling

F Dominguez, P Kumar, XZ Liang, M Ting - Journal of climate, 2006 - journals.ametsoc.org
Computations of precipitation recycling using analytical models are generally performed
under the assumption of negligible change in moisture storage in the atmospheric column …