El niño southern oscillation link to the Blue Nile River basin hydrology

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 23, Issue 26, 2009, Pages 3653-3660

  Abtew, Wossenu ^a   Melesse, Assefa M ^b   Dessalegne, Tibebe ^c  

^a SOUTH FLORIDA WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT   (United States)

^b FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BEM Systems Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLUE NILE; BLUE NILE RIVER BASIN; CONFIDENCE LEVELS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DRY AND WET; ENSO EVENTS; ETHIOPIA; EVENT CORRESPONDENCE; HIGH FLOW; INDEX VALUES; LEADTIME; NEW APPROACHES; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES; SOI INDICES; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION INDEX; SPATIAL AVERAGE; TELECONNECTIONS; WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; DROUGHT; FOOD SUPPLY; RIVERS; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; WATER; WATER RESOURCES; WATERSHEDS;

NICKEL COMPOUNDS;

CORRELATION; CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; DROUGHT; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; FLOOD; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; RIVER BASIN; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; TELECONNECTION; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; WATER MANAGEMENT;

BLUE NILE BASIN; ETHIOPIA; NILE BASIN;

EID: 76149098791     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7367     Document Type: Article

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