Correlations between North Atlantic Oscillation Index in winter and eastern China Flood/Drought Index in summer in the last 530 years

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 50, Issue 21, 2005, Pages 2505-2516

  Fu, Congbin ^a,b   Zeng, Zhaomei ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b START Regional Center for Temperate East Asia   (China)

Author keywords

Correlation coefficient; Flood Drought Index (FDI); North Atlantic Oscillation Index (NAOI); Oscillation period; Power spectrum analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749844347     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1360/04wd0284     Document Type: Article

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