Nilometers, El-Niño, and vlimate variability

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 489-492

  Eltahir, Elfatih A B ^a,b   Wang, Gulling ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLOW OF WATER; RIVERS; STATISTICAL METHODS; EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

EL NINO PHENOMENA; NILOMETERS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; NICKEL;

CLIMATE CHANGE; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; WATER LEVEL;

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; HYDROLOGICAL PHENOMENON; INTERANNUAL FLUCTUATIONS; LONG TERM STATISTICS; LONG-TERM VARIABILITY; NILE RIVERS; RECENT TRENDS;

EID: 0033557856     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900013     Document Type: Article

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