Seasonal prediction of monsoon rainfall in three Asian river basins: The importance of snow cover on the Tibetan Plateau

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1835-1842

  Immerzeel, W W ^a,b   Bierkens, M F P ^b,c  

^a FutureWater Wageningen   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c DELTARES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

ENSO; Monsoon; NAO; Snow; Tibetan Plateau; TRMM

Indexed keywords

ENSO; MONSOON; NAO; TIBETAN PLATEAU; TRMM;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATOLOGY; FORECASTING; RAIN; RAIN GAGES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; TIME SERIES; WATERSHEDS;

SNOW;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CLIMATE PREDICTION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; MONSOON; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAINFALL; RIVER BASIN; SNOW COVER; WEATHER FORECASTING;

BRAHMAPUTRA BASIN; CHINA; GANGES BASIN; INDUS BASIN; PAKISTAN; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 78649605819     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.2033     Document Type: Article

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