Abstract: The energy and moisture state in the soil and new-surface atmosphere evolve due to fluxes that are themselves a function of these states. Because the soil moisture and temperature are negatively correlated (dry warm or ...

Abstract: Regional precipitation recycling may constitute a feedback mechanism affecting soil moisture memory and the persistence of anomalously dry or wet states. Bulk methods, which estimate recycling based on time-averaged ...

Abstract: The total amount of water that precipitates on large continental regions is supplied by two mechanisms: 1) advection from the surrounding areas external to the region and 2) evaporation and transpiration from the land ...

Abstract: A synthesis of several approaches to quantifying land?atmosphere interactions is presented. These approaches use data from observations or atmospheric reanalyses applied to atmospheric tracer models and stand-alone land ...

Abstract: The terrestrial and oceanic sources of moisture that supply warm-season rainfall to the Mississippi River basin and its subbasins are examined over a 36-yr period (1963?98). Using hourly observed precipitation, National ...