Multidecadal climate variability of global lands and oceans

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 849-865

  McCabe, Gregory J ^a   Palecki, Michael A ^b  

^a DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^b ILLINOIS STATE WATER SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decadal variability; Drought; PDSI; SST

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; OCEANOGRAPHY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

LAND-SURFACE CLIMATE CONDITIONS; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION (PDO); PALMER DROUGHT SEVERITY INDEX (PDSI); PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS ANALYSIS (PCA); SEA-SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SSTS); SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION (SVD);

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE VARIATION; DECADAL VARIATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 33745269295     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.1289     Document Type: Article

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