The changing relationship between ENSO variability and moisture balance in the continental United States

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 24, 1998, Pages 4529-4532

  Cole, Julia E ^a   Cook, Edward R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; MOISTURE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE;

EL NINO SOUTHERN OSCILLATION (ENSO); MOISTURE ANOMALIES; CLIMATE ANOMALIES; DECADAL CHANGE; ENSO INDICES; EXTRATROPICAL; MOISTURE BALANCE; NORTH PACIFIC; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; TELECONNECTION PATTERNS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE SIGNAL; DROUGHT; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; MOISTURE TRANSFER;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032535252     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998GL900145     Document Type: Article

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