Subseasonal analysis of precipitation variability in the Blue Nile River Basin

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 325-344

  Berhane, Fisseha ^a   Zaitchik, Benjamin ^a   Dezfuli, Amin ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Africa; Climate variability; Interannual variability; Intraseasonal variability

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; INTRASEASONAL VARIABILITY; PRECIPITATION VARIABILITY; QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); TRANSBOUNDARY WATER RESOURCES;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; FOOD SUPPLY; SEA LEVEL; WATER RESOURCES; WATERSHEDS; WIND;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; JET STREAM; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUMMER; TELECONNECTION; TROPOSPHERE;

ARABIAN PENINSULA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BLUE NILE BASIN; GULF OF GUINEA; NILE BASIN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 84892458968     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00094.1     Document Type: Article

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