Large-scale, inter-annual relations among surface temperature, water vapour and precipitation with and without ENSO and volcano forcings

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1782-1791

  Gu, Guojun ^a,b   Adler, Robert F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Precipitation variability; Surface temperature variations; Water vapour variability

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIABILITY/CHANGE; FORCINGS; GLOBAL OCEAN; GLOBAL PRECIPITATION; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLES; INTERANNUAL; INTERDECADAL; LARGE DOMAIN; LARGE-SCALE CIRCULATION; LARGE-SCALE DYNAMICS; PRECIPITATION VARIABILITY; SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES; SURFACE TEMPERATURE CHANGES; SURFACE TEMPERATURE VARIATION; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TEMPORAL SCALE; TIME-SCALES; VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS; WATER CYCLE; WATER VAPOUR; WATER-VAPOUR VARIABILITY;

GLOBAL WARMING; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SURFACE PROPERTIES; TROPOSPHERE; VAPORS; VOLCANOES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CORRELATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; GLOBAL WARMING; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TROPOSPHERE; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 84867010419     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.2393     Document Type: Article

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