Drought and regional hydrologic variation in the United States: Associations with the El Nino-Southern oscillation

Water Resources Research

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1359-1373

  Piechota, Thomas C ^a   Dracup, John A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE; CONDITIONED REFLEX; DROUGHT; EL NINO; OSCILLATION; PRECIPITATION; TEMPERATURE; UNITED STATES;

DROUGHT; HYDROLOGICAL VARIATION; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION;

USA;

EID: 0029662898     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96WR00353     Document Type: Review

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