Heavy daily precipitation frequency over the contiguous United States: Sources of climatic variability and seasonal predictability

Journal of Climate

Volumn 16, Issue 16, 2003, Pages 2752-2765

  Gershunov, Alexander ^a   Cayan, Daniel R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; FREQUENCIES; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); STATISTICAL METHODS;

SEASONAL PREDICTABILITY;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PREDICTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0141632859     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2003)016<2752:HDPFOT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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