Correlations between precipitation patterns in southern Mexico and the El Niño sea surface temperature index

Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, Volume 5: Water Pollution

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 80-86

  Golicher, John Duncan ^a   Ramírez Marcíal, Neptalí ^b   Tacher, Samuel Israel Levy ^b  

^a ECOSUR ^*  (Mexico)

^b EL COLEGIO DE LA FRONTERA SUR   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Chiapas; Correlation; El Ni o; Interpolation; Rainfall; Time Series

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947315411     PISSN: 14336863     EISSN: 03781844     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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