On the coupling between vegetation and rainfall inter-annual anomalies: Possible contributions to seasonal rainfall predictability over land areas

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Alessandri, Andrea ^a   Navarra, Antonio ^a,b  

^a CENTRO EURO MEDITERRANEO SUI CAMBIAMENTI CLIMATICI   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; SOIL MOISTURE; VEGETATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

DYNAMICAL SEASONAL FORECASTING; EL NIÑO SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; INTERANNUAL ANOMALIES;

RAIN;

ANNUAL VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; PREDICTION; RAINFALL; SOIL MOISTURE; VEGETATION COVER; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 40849100269     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL032415     Document Type: Article

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