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Land-surface controls on afternoon precipitation diagnosed from observational data: uncertainties and confounding factors
B. P. Guillod
ETH Zurich, Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, Zurich, Switzerland
B. Orlowsky
ETH Zurich, Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, Zurich, Switzerland
D. Miralles
Ghent University, Laboratory of Hydrology and Water Management, Ghent, Belgium
University of Bristol, School of Geographical Sciences, Bristol, UK
A. J. Teuling
Wageningen University, Hydrology and Quantitative Water Management Group, Wageningen, the Netherlands
P. D. Blanken
University of Colorado, Department of Geography, Boulder, CO, USA
N. Buchmann
ETH Zurich, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Zurich, Switzerland
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
M. Ek
National Centers for Environmental Prediction, Suitland, MD, USA
K. L. Findell
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, USA
P. Gentine
Columbia University, Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, New York, NY, USA
B. R. Lintner
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Department of Environmental Sciences, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
R. L. Scott
Southwest Watershed Research Center, USDA-ARS, Tucson, AZ, USA
B. Van den Hurk
Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, KNMI, De Bilt, the Netherlands
S. I. Seneviratne
ETH Zurich, Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, Zurich, Switzerland
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