Growing season convective systems in the US Corn Belt in relation to land use-land cover and synoptic patterns
Mikael P. Hiestand,
Andrew M. Carleton,
Guido Cervone
Abstract:Localized short-period studies suggest that differences in surface heat uxes between croplands and remnant forest of the U.S. Corn Belt-the dominant Land Use-Land Cover (LULC) types-in uence convective cloud formation in the warm season, primarily around crop-forest boundaries. However, an investigation on climatic timescales is needed to help improve understanding of convective climate in relation to LULC. We use spatial cluster analysis to compare convective systems (CS) from the International Satellite Clou… Show more
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