ENSO modulates rainfall in the Mediterranean Californias

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 20, 1998, Pages 3855-3858

  Pavía, Edgar G ^a   Badan, Antoine ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y DE EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR DE ENSENADA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATOLOGY; NICKEL; RAIN; CLIMATE CHANGE;

ANNUAL RAINFALL; DEPHASING; INTERANNUAL; MEDITERRANEAN CLIMATES; MIDLATITUDES; PREVIOUS YEAR; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION INDEX;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); CLIMATOLOGY;

INTERANNUAL WEATHER FLUCTUATION;

EID: 0032181941     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998GL900029     Document Type: Article

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