Implications of the permanent El Niño teleconnection "blueprint" for past global and North American hydroclimatology

Climate of the Past

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 723-743

  Goldner, A ^a   Huber, M ^a   Diffenbaugh, N ^b   Caballero, R ^c  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARIDIFICATION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATOLOGY; EL NINO; GLOBAL WARMING; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; LATITUDE; NEOGENE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; PREDICTION; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESOLUTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEMIARID REGION; TELECONNECTION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 79960347530     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-7-723-2011     Document Type: Article

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