New England drought and relations with large scale atmospheric circulation patterns

Journal of the American Water Resources Association

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1287-1299

  Bradbury, James A ^a,b,c   Dingman, S Lawrence ^b   Keim, Barry D ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^b Univ of New Hampshire   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^d Institute for the Study of Earth Oceans and Space   (United States)

Author keywords

Drought; Hydroclimate; New England; North Atlantic Oscillation; Pacific North American pattern

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CORRELATION METHODS; DROUGHT; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SNOW; STREAM FLOW;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATIONS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; DROUGHT; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); STREAMFLOW;

NEW ENGLAND; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036811337     PISSN: 1093474X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-1688.2002.tb04348.x     Document Type: Article

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