Forecasting Andean rainfall and crop yield from the influence of El Nino on Pleiades visibility

Nature

Volumn 403, Issue 6765, 2000, Pages 68-71

  Orlove, Benjamin S ^a,b   Chiang, John C H ^b   Cane, Mark A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

CROP YIELD; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; RAINFALL; WEATHER FORECASTING;

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; CROP; NONHUMAN; POTATO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTH AMERICA; WATER VAPOR; WINTER;

SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 0034610731     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/47456     Document Type: Article

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