Prediction of seasonal mean United States precipitation based on El Niño sea surface temperatures

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1341-1344

  Wang, Hui ^a,c   Ting, Mingfang ^a   Ji, Ming ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; FORECASTING; NICKEL; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WATERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; RAIN; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

NATIONAL CENTERS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTIONS; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE MODELS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES; SEASONAL PREDICTION; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SUMMER PRECIPITATION; WINTER PRECIPITATION;

OCEANOGRAPHY; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

EL NINO SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; LA NINA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033134174     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900230     Document Type: Article

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