The strength of El Niño and the spatial extent of tropical drought

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 21, 2004, Pages

  Lyon, Bradfield ^a  

^a Earth Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

1812 Hydrology: Drought; 1854 Hydrology: Precipitation (3354); 3354 Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics: Precipitation (1854); 4522 Oceanography: Physical: El Nino

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; LAND USE; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN; TROPICAL ENGINEERING; GLOBAL WARMING; NICKEL; TROPICS;

RAINFALL VARIABILITY; TROPICAL DROUGHT; TROPICAL LAND AREAS; TROPICAL RAINFALL;

DROUGHT;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; DROUGHT; EL NINO; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TELECONNECTION; TROPICAL REGION;

GLOBAL TROPICS; IMPLICATIONS FOR FUTURES; LAND AREAS; SPATIAL EXTENT; TROPICAL DROUGHT; TROPICAL LAND AREAS; TROPICAL RAINFALL;

EID: 13244283009     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020901     Document Type: Article

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