The influence of the North Atlantic Oscillation and European circulation regimes on the daily to interannual variability of winter precipitation in Israel

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1654-1664

  Black, Emily ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

GWL; Israel; Jordan; NAO; Precipitation

Indexed keywords

ARID CLIMATES; DRY WEATHERS; GWL; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; ISRAEL; JORDAN; MIDDLE EAST; MODEL SIMULATION; NAO; NAO INDEX; NON-LINEARITY; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; STATIONARITY; STORM TRACK; TELECONNECTIONS; TIME-SCALES; WEAK CORRELATION; WINTER PRECIPITATION;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATE MODELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); RAIN;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ARID ENVIRONMENT; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; WINTER;

ISRAEL; JORDAN;

EID: 84856902188     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.2383     Document Type: Article

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