Weakening significance of ENSO as a predictor of summer precipitation in China

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2006, Pages

  Gao, Hui ^a   Wang, Yongguang ^a   He, Jinhai ^b  

^a China Meteorological Administration   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN;

EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; INTERDECADAL VARIATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

DECADAL VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PREDICTION; RAINFALL; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 33745699423     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL025511     Document Type: Article

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