Precipitation fluctuations in the Nepal Himalaya and its vicinity and relationship with some large scale climatological parameters

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 317-327

  Shrestha, Arun B ^a,b   Wake, Cameron P ^a,c   Dibb, Jack E ^a,c   Mayewski, Paul A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^b Technology and Environment   (Nepal)

^c University of New Hampshire   (United States)

Author keywords

El Nino; Himalaya; Nepal; South Asia; Spectral analysis

Indexed keywords

EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; TELECONNECTION;

NEPAL;

EID: 0034030868     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0088(20000315)20:3<317::AID-JOC476>3.0.CO;2-G     Document Type: Article

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