COLA / AOES Land Group

Terrestrial Sources of Precipitation Fraction of precipitation originating as evaporation over land by season. Regions with climatological rainfall rates less than 0.1 mm/day and permanent ice points are masked in white (from Dirmeyer et al. 2014).
Prof. Paul Dirmeyer
Building: Research Hall
Office: Room 266
Mail stop: 6C5
Phone: +1-703-993-5363
E-mail: pdirmeye~gmu.edu

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Weather and climate analysis of water vapor transport and surface interactions coupling to precipitation processes 2009-2014

Reports:
Final Report, May, 2014

Publications:
Dirmeyer, P. A., J. Wei, M. G. Bosilovich, and D. M. Mocko, 2014: Comparing evaporative sources of terrestrial precipitation and their extremes in MERRA using relative entropy. J. Hydrometeor., 15, 102-116, doi: 10.1175/JHM-D-13-053.1.
Dirmeyer, P. A., 2011: The terrestrial segment of soil moisture-climate coupling. Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, L16702, doi: 10.1029/2011GL048268.
Wei, J., P. A. Dirmeyer, D. Wisser, M. J. Bosilovich, and D. M. Mocko, 2013: Where does the irrigation water go? An estimate of the contribution of irrigation to precipitation using MERRA. J. Hydrometeor., 14, 275-289, doi: 10.1175/JHM-D-12-079.1.
Wei, J., P. A. Dirmeyer, M. J. Bosilovich, and R. Wu. 2012: Water vapor sources for Yangtze River Valley rainfall: Climatology, variability, and implications for rainfall forecasting, J. Geophys. Res., 117, D05126, doi: 10.1029/2011JD016902.
Wei, J., and P. A. Dirmeyer, 2012: Dissecting soil moisture-precipitation coupling. Geophys. Res. Lett., 39, L19711, doi: 10.1029/2012GL053038.