The enhanced drying effect of Central-Pacific El Niño on US winter

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Yu, Jin Yi ^a   Zou, Yuhao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Central Pacific El Ni o; drought; Eastern Pacific El Ni o; precipitation; stormtrack; US winter

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; LASERS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); STORMS;

DRYING EFFECTS; MODEL EXPERIMENTS; NATURAL CLIMATE VARIABILITIES; PACIFIC NORTHWEST; STORMTRACK; US WINTER; WETTING EFFECT; WINTER PRECIPITATION;

DRYING;

CLIMATE CHANGE; EL NINO; JET STREAM; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STORM; WETTING;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (CENTRAL);

EID: 84876167831     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/8/1/014019     Document Type: Article

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