Understanding the wet season variations over Florida

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 40, Issue 5-6, 2013, Pages 1361-1372

  Misra, Vasubandhu ^a   DiNapoli, S M ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

AMO; Climate change; ENSO; PDO; Wet season

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; EL NINO; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; TELECONNECTION; WARM POOL; WARMING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84874309492     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-012-1382-4     Document Type: Article

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