A climate-flood link for the lower Mekong River

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1533-1541

  Delgado, J M ^a   Merz, B ^a   Apel, H ^a  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOOD DISCHARGE; FLOOD SEASON; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; INTERANNUAL; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; MEKONG DELTA; MEKONG RIVER; MONSOON CIRCULATIONS; MONSOON INTENSITY; NORTH PACIFIC; OCEAN TEMPERATURE; PROBABILITY OF OCCURRENCE; REGIME SHIFT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SOUTHEAST ASIA; SOUTHWEST MONSOON; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; TIME-SCALES; WESTERN PACIFIC;

FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; RIVERS;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECADAL VARIATION; DISCHARGE; FLOOD; MONSOON; PROBABILITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPATIAL VARIATION; TIMESCALE;

CAMBODIA; KRACHEH; MEKONG RIVER; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 84861829878     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-16-1533-2012     Document Type: Article

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