Recent rainfall cycle in the Intermountain Region as a quadrature amplitude modulation from the Pacific decadal oscillation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Wang, Shih Yu ^a   Gillies, Robert R ^a   Jin, Jiming ^a   Hipps, Lawrence E ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MODULATION; PHASE TRANSITIONS;

GULF OF ALASKA; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATIONS; PRECIPITATION ANOMALIES; QUADRATURE PHASE; RAINFALL CYCLES; TRANSITION PHASE;

RAIN;

HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; MOUNTAIN REGION; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL;

GULF OF ALASKA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 62749131206     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL036329     Document Type: Article

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