On the temporal clustering of US floods and its relationship to climate teleconnection patterns

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 629-640

  Villarini, Gabriele ^a,b   Smith, James A ^a   Vitolo, Renato ^b,c   Stephenson, David B ^c  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b Towers Watson   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cox regression; Flood; Iowa; NAO; PNA; Temporal clustering

Indexed keywords

COX REGRESSION; IOWA; NAO; PNA; TEMPORAL CLUSTERING;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATOLOGY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RAIN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOIL MOISTURE;

FLOODS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CLIMATE MODELING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FLOODING; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; RAINFALL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TELECONNECTION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); IOWA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); UNITED STATES;

EID: 84873524656     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.3458     Document Type: Article

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