Interannual to interdecadal variations of the regionalized surface climate of the united states and relationships to generalized flow parameters

Physical Geography

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 271-291

  Vega, Anthony J ^a   Sui, Chung Hsiung ^b   Lau, Ka Ming ^b  

^a CLARION UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; EI Ni o; Precipitation; Southern Oscillation; Temperature; United States climate

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; NUMERICAL METHOD; REGIONAL CLIMATE; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032466263     PISSN: 02723646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02723646.1998.10642651     Document Type: Article

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