Seasonal U.S. temperature and precipitation anomalies associated with El Nino: Historical results and comparison with 1997-98

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 21, 1998, Pages 3959-3962

  Harrison, D E ^a,b   Larkin, N K ^b  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; METEOROLOGICAL PROBLEMS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

AUTUMN; EL NINO PHENOMENON; SPRING; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; WINTER;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; EXTREME EVENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEASONALITY; TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032216304     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998GL900061     Document Type: Article

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