Are the El Niño and La Niña predictors of the Iowa river seasonal flow?

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 690-705

  Guetter, Alexandre K ^a   Georgakakos, Konstantine P ^a,b  

^a HYDROLOGIC RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EL NINO; LA NINA; RAINFALL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION INDEX; STREAMFLOW;

USA, IOWA, IOWA RIVER;

EID: 0030498578     PISSN: 08948763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0450(1996)035<0690:ATENAL>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. American Society of Civil Engineers, 1989: Evapotranspiration and irrigation water requirements. ASCE Manual and Reports on Engineering Practice No. 70, M. E. Jensen, R. D. Burman, and R. G. Allen, Eds., American Society of Civil Engineers, 332 pp.
2. Bae, D.-H., and K. P. Georgakakos, 1994: Climatic variability of soil water in the American Midwest: Part 2. Spatio-temporal analysis. J. Hydrol., 162, 335-377.
3. Barnston, A. G., 1994: Linear statistical short-term climate predictive skill in the Northern Hemisphere. J. Climate, 7, 1513-1564.
4. Bell, G. D., and J. E. Janowiak, 1995: Atmospheric circulation associated with the Midwest floods of 1993. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 76, 681-695.
5. Cayan, D. R., and D. H. Peterson, 1989: The influence of North Pacific atmospheric circulation on streamflow in the West. Geophys. Monogr. No. 55, Amer. Geophys. Union, 375-397.
6. _, and K. P. Georgakakos, 1995: Hydroclimatology of continental watersheds. Part 2: Spatial analyses. Water Resour. Res., 31, 677-697.
7. Earthlnfo, 1993a: USGS Daily Values: EarthInfo CD Reference Manual. Earthlnfo Inc., 65 pp.
8. _, 1993b: NCDC Summary of the Day: EarthInfo CD Reference Manual. Earthlnfo Inc., 65 pp.
9. Georgakakos, K. P., and D.-H. Bae, 1994: Climatic variability of soil water in the American Midwest. Part 2: Spatio-temporal analysis. J. Hydrol, 162, 379-390.
10. _, and O. W. Baumer, 1995: Measurement and analysis of soil water data. J. Hydrol., in press.
11. Guetter, A. K., and K. P. Georgakakos, 1994: Potential evapotranspiration and atmospheric circulation of the continental United States. EOS (supplement), 75, 217.
12. _, and _, 1995a: Associations of the U.S. regional streamflow and the El Niño/Southern Oscillation. Preprints, Conf. on Hydrology, Dallas, TX, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 181-185.
13. _, and _, 1995b: Large-scale properties of soil-water variability. J. Geophys. Res., in press.
14. _, _, and D. R. Cayan, 1994: Diagnostic hydrologic studies of the continental United States. IIHR Tech. Rep. No. 371, Iowa Institute of Hydraulic Research, The University of Iowa, 263 pp.
15. Halpert, M. S., G. D. Bell, V. E. Kousky, and C. F. Ropelewski, 1994: Fifth Annual Climate Assessment 1993. Climate Analysis Center, Camp Springs, MD, 111 pp.
16. Kahya, E., and J. A. Dracup, 1993: U.S. streamflow patterns in relation to the El Niño/Southern Oscillation. Water Resour. Res., 29, 2491-2503.
17. _, and _, 1994: The influences of Type 1 El Niño events on streamflows in the Pacific Southwest of the United States. J. Climate, 7, 965-976.
18. Kuhnel, H., T. A. McMahon, B. L. Finlayson, A. Haines, P. H. Whetton, and T. T. Gibson, 1990: Climatic influences on streamflow variability: A comparison between Southeastern Australia and Southeastern United States of America. Water Resour. Res., 26, 2483-2496.
19. Namias, J., 1983: Teleconnections and weather phenomena during the recent El Niño period. 1982-83 El Niño/Southern Oscillation Data Display Workshop, NOAA/AOML, Miami, FL, 211-217.
20. Philander, S. G., 1990: El Niño, La Niña, and the Southern Oscillation. Academic Press, 289 pp.
21. Quinn, W. H., V. T. Neal, and S. E. A. Mayolo, 1987: El Niño occurrences over the past four and a half centuries. J. Geophys. Res., 92(C13), 14449-14461.
22. Rasmusson, E. M., and T. H. Carpenter, 1982: Variations in tropical sea surface temperature and surface wind fields associated with the Southern Oscillation/El Niño, Mon. Wea. Rev., 110, 354-384.
23. Roads, J. O., S.-C. Chen, A. K. Guetter, and Konstantine P. Georgakakos, 1994: Large-scale aspects of the United States hydrologic cycle. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 75, 1589-1610.
24. Ropelewski, C. F., and M. S. Halpert, 1986: North American precipitation and temperature patterns associated with the El Niño/ Southern Oscillation (ENSO). Mon. Wea. Rev., 114, 2352-2362.
25. _, and P. D. Jones, 1987: An extension of the Tahiti-Darwin Southern Oscillation index. Mon. Wea. Rev., 115, 2161-2165.
26. _, J. E. Janowiak, and M. S. Halpert, 1985: The analysis and display of real time surface climate data. Mon. Wea. Rev., 113, 1101-1106.
27. Trenberth, K. E., 1976: Spatial and temporal variations of the Southern Oscillation. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 102, 639-653.
28. _, 1984: Some effects of finite sample size and persistence on meteorological statistics. Part I: Autocorrelation. Mon. Wea. Rev., 112, 2359-2368.
29. Troup, A. J., 1965: The "Southern Oscillation." Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 91, 490-506.
30. Whittaker, L. M., and Horn, L. H., 1984: Northern Hemisphere extratropical cyclone activity for four mid-season months. J. Climatol, 4, 287-310.
31. Zwiers, F. W., 1990: The effect of serial correlation on statistical inferences made with resampling procedures. J. Climate, 3, 1452-1461.