Interdecadal variability/long-term changes in global precipitation patterns during the past three decades: Global warming and/or pacific decadal variability?

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 40, Issue 11-12, 2013, Pages 3009-3022

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECADAL VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GLOBAL WARMING; LA NINA; LAND SURFACE; LONG-TERM CHANGE; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TROPOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 84878107027     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-012-1443-8     Document Type: Article

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