El Niño-induced tropical droughts in climate change projections

Journal of Climate

Volumn 22, Issue 23, 2009, Pages 6456-6476

  Coelho, Caio A S ^a   Goddard, Lisa ^b  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^b Earth Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE PROJECTIONS; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; MEAN PRECIPITATION; MODEL GROUPS; PRECIPITATION DEFICITS; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SPATIAL EXTENT; TELECONNECTIONS; TROPICAL DROUGHT; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATE MODELS; DROUGHT; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; TROPICS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; DROUGHT; EL NINO; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; FUTURE PROSPECT; TELECONNECTION; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY; TWENTIETH CENTURY; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

EID: 77649322429     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JCLI3185.1     Document Type: Article

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