Analyzing the Potential Impacts of Soil Moisture on the Observed and Model-Simulated Australian Surface Temperature Variations

From: Journal of Climate | Date: November 1, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

ABSTRACT

Based on observational and modeling analyses, this study aims to assess the potential influence of land surface conditions (soil moisture, in particular) on the Australian surface temperature variations. At first, a simple linear regression method is used to largely remove the ENSO influence from 50-yr observational surface temperature and precipitation datasets. Then, lag and partial correlations of the residuals are analyzed. The impacts of precipitation on the forthcoming surface temperature variations are largely attributed to the soil storage of precipitation water and the ...

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