Abstract: AbstractFire is a global phenomenon and the primary form of terrestrial ecosystem disturbance on a global scale. It is tightly coupled with climate, ecosystems, carbon and water cycles, and human activities. Through biomass ...

Abstract: ermafrost is a characteristic aspect of the terrestrial Arctic and the fate of near-surface permafrost over the next century is likely to exert strong controls on Arctic hydrology and biogeochemistry. Using output from the ...

Abstract: The summertime intraseasonal oscillation (ISO) is an important component of the south Asian monsoon. Lagged regressions of intraseasonally filtered (25?80 days) outgoing longwave radiation (OLR) reveal that centers of ...

Abstract: A recent model intercomparison, the Global Land?Atmosphere Coupling Experiment (GLACE), showed that there is a wide range of land?atmosphere coupling strengths, or the degree that soil moisture affects the generation of ...

Abstract: It is noted that the behavior of the intraseasonal oscillation (ISO) of the south Asian monsoon varies from year to year. An index representing seasonally averaged ISO activity is developed using outgoing longwave radiation ...

Abstract: AbstractThe land surface state can be an important factor in the triggering of precipitation, whose depiction in Earth system models (ESMs) crucially relies on the representation of convective initiation. However, the ...

Abstract: Two atmospheric general circulation model experiments are conducted with specified terrestrial snow conditions representative of 1980?99 and 2080?99. The snow states are obtained from twentieth-century and twenty-first-century ...

Abstract: he representation of permafrost and seasonally frozen ground and their projected twenty-first century trends is assessed in the Community Climate System Model, version 4 (CCSM4) and the Community Land Model version 4 (CLM4). ...