Oceanic sources of continental precipitation and the correlation with sea surface temperature

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 3993-4004

  Van Der Ent, Rudi J ^a   Savenije, Hubert H G ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

continental precipitation; ENSO; moisture tracking; oceanic evaporation; sea surface temperature

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; EVAPORATION; MOISTURE; NUMERICAL METHODS; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WATERS;

BACKTRACKING ANALYSIS; CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; ENSO; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; TRACKING ANALYSIS; WEATHER PREDICTION;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EID: 84879862470     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrcr.20296     Document Type: Article

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