A possible link between El Nino and precipitation in Israel

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 21, 1998, Pages 3963-3966

  Price, Colin ^a   Stone, Lewi ^a   Huppert, Amit ^a   Rajagopalan, Balaji ^b   Alpert, Pinhas ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; LAKES; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN; SNOW; STREAM FLOW; WATER LEVELS; WATER RESOURCES;

EL NINO PHENOMENON; ISRAEL;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY);

ISRAEL;

EID: 0032215787     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998GL900098     Document Type: Article

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