North-South precipitation patterns in western North America on interannual-to-decadal timescales

Journal of Climate

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 3095-3111

  Dettinger, Michael D ^a   Cayan, Daniel R ^a   Diaz, Henry F ^b   Meko, David M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TRANSECT;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 0032413299     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1998)011<3095:NSPPIW>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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