Shifts in the statistics of daily rainfall in South America conditional on ENSO phase

Journal of Climate

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 849-865

  Ropelewski, C F ^a,b   Bell, M A ^a  

^a Earth Institute   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; KOHNOGOROV-SMIRNOV TEST; TEMPORAL SCALES;

RAIN;

AIR TEMPERATURE; DATA SET; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEASONAL VARIATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 44349095858     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JCLI1617.1     Document Type: Article

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