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Seasonal and interannual variability of land–atmosphere coupling across the Southern Great Plains of North America using the North American regional reanalysis
Author(s) -
Basara Jeffrey B.,
Christian Jordan I.
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
international journal of climatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.58
H-Index - 166
eISSN - 1097-0088
pISSN - 0899-8418
DOI - 10.1002/joc.5223
Subject(s) - climatology , pluvial , mesoscale meteorology , precipitation , environmental science , atmosphere (unit) , boreal , latent heat , spatial variability , atmospheric sciences , geology , geography , meteorology , oceanography , paleontology , statistics , mathematics
The purpose of this study was to investigate the seasonal to interannual variability of the temporal and spatial distributions of land–atmosphere coupling at the mesoscale within the Southern Great Plains (SGP) of the United States. The results revealed that (1) the variability of coupling was large both within‐season (i.e. June–August, JJA) as well as at the interannual scale and (2) no specific locations showed consistent coupling within the SGP region within‐season and from year to year.