El Niño and prediction of anomalous monthly rainfalls in Ecuador

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 23, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 3253-3260

  Rossel, Frédéric ^a   Cadier, Eric ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

Ecuador; El ni o; Rainfall prediction

Indexed keywords

COASTAL AREA; COASTAL REGIONS; CONVERGENCE ZONES; DATA SETS; EASTERN EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; EASTERN TROPICAL PACIFIC; ECUADOR; GUAYAQUIL; HOT WEATHER; LEADTIME; LINEAR CORRELATION; MOIST AIR; MULTIPLE REGRESSION MODEL; PREDICTIVE POWER; RAINFALL ANOMALY; RAINFALL INDEX; RAINFALL PREDICTION; RAINY SEASONS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TRADE WINDS; ZONAL WIND;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COASTAL ZONES; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS;

RAIN;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CLIMATE MODELING; COASTAL ZONE; DATA SET; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; INDEX METHOD; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; RAINFALL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TRADE WIND; ZONAL WIND;

ECUADOR; GUAYAQUIL; GUAYAS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTH); PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); PERU; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 70549100216     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7401     Document Type: Article

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