Abstract: A coupled land?atmosphere climate model is examined for evidence of climate drift in the land surface state variable of soil moisture. The drift is characterized as pathological error growth in two different ways. First ...

Abstract: Two ensembles of 1-month integrations of a coupled land?atmosphere climate model that differ only in their treatment of land surface boundary conditions have been generated from initial conditions chosen from the July ...

Abstract: This is the first of a two-part article that investigates the impact of land surface evaporation variability on the interannual variability of precipitation and compares it with the impact caused by sea surface temperature ...

Abstract: Skill in ensemble-mean dynamical seasonal climate hindcasts with a coupled land?atmosphere model and specified observed sea surface temperature is compared to that for long multidecade integrations of the same model where ...

Abstract: he Global Soil Wetness Project (GSWP) is an international land surface modeling research effort involving dataset production, validation, model comparison, and scientific investigation in the areas of land surface hydrology ...

Abstract: The role of the land surface in contributing to the potential predictability of the boreal summer climate is investigated with a coupled land?atmosphere climate model. Ensemble simulations for 1982?99 have been conducted ...

Abstract: The impact of improvements in land surface initialization and specification of observed rainfall in global climate model simulations of boreal summer are examined to determine how the changes propagate around the hydrologic ...

Abstract: Ensembles of boreal summer coupled land?atmosphere climate model integrations for 1987 and 1988 are conducted with and without interactive soil moisture to evaluate the degree of climate drift in the coupled land?atmosphere ...

Abstract: n this study of snow?atmosphere coupling strength, the previous snow?atmosphere coupled modeling experiment is extended to investigate the separate impacts on the atmosphere of the radiatively driven snow albedo effect and ...

Abstract: now?atmosphere coupling strength, the degree to which the atmosphere (temperature and precipitation) responds to underlying snow anomalies, is investigated using the Community Climate System Model (CCSM) with realistic ...