What caused the winter drought in western nepal during recent years?

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 21, 2013, Pages 8241-8256

  Wang, Shih Yu ^a   Yoon, Jin Ho ^b   Gillies, Robert R ^a   Cho, Changrae ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arctic Oscillation; Atmospheric circulation; Climate variability; Decadal variability; Trends

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC OSCILLATION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; DECADAL VARIABILITY; TRENDS;

CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY; DROUGHT; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES;

LOADING;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ARCTIC OSCILLATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DECADAL VARIATION; DROUGHT; SEVERE WEATHER; TREND ANALYSIS; WINTER;

NEPAL;

EID: 84886266166     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00800.1     Document Type: Article

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