Regions of strong coupling between soil moisture and precipitation

Randal D. Koster; Paul A. Dirmeyer; Zhichang Guo; Gordon Bonan; Edmond Chan; Peter Cox; C. T. Gordon; Shinjiro Kanae; Eva Kowalczyk; David Lawrence; Ping Liu; Cheng Hsuan Lu; Sergey Malyshev; Bryant McAvaney; Ken Mitchell; David Mocko; Taikan Oki; Keith Oleson; Andrew Pitman; Y. C. Sud; Christopher M. Taylor; Diana Verseghy; Ratko Vasic; Yongkang Xue; Tomohito Yamada

doi:10.1126/science.1100217

Regions of strong coupling between soil moisture and precipitation

Randal D. Koster^*, Paul A. Dirmeyer, Zhichang Guo, Gordon Bonan, Edmond Chan, Peter Cox, C. T. Gordon, Shinjiro Kanae, Eva Kowalczyk, David Lawrence, Ping Liu, Cheng Hsuan Lu, Sergey Malyshev, Bryant McAvaney, Ken Mitchell, David Mocko, Taikan Oki, Keith Oleson, Andrew Pitman, Y. C. SudChristopher M. Taylor, Diana Verseghy, Ratko Vasic, Yongkang Xue, Tomohito Yamada

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Abstract

Previous estimates of land-atmosphere interaction (the impact of soil moisture on precipitation) have been limited by a lack of observational data and by the model dependence of computational estimates. To counter the second limitation, a dozen climate-modeling groups have recently performed the same highly controlled numerical experiment as part of a coordinated comparison project. This allows a multimodel estimation of the regions on Earth where precipitation is affected by soil moisture anomalies during Northern Hemisphere summer. Potential benefits of this estimation may include improved seasonal rainfall forecasts.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1138-1140
Number of pages	3
Journal	Science
Volume	305
Issue number	5687
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1100217
Publication status	Published - 20 Aug 2004

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Koster, R. D., Dirmeyer, P. A., Guo, Z., Bonan, G., Chan, E., Cox, P., Gordon, C. T., Kanae, S., Kowalczyk, E., Lawrence, D., Liu, P., Lu, C. H., Malyshev, S., McAvaney, B., Mitchell, K., Mocko, D., Oki, T., Oleson, K., Pitman, A., ... Yamada, T. (2004). Regions of strong coupling between soil moisture and precipitation. Science, 305(5687), 1138-1140. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1100217

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