La Niña diversity and Northwest Indian Ocean Rim teleconnections

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 43, Issue 9-10, 2014, Pages 2707-2724

  Hoell, Andrew ^a   Funk, Chris ^a,b   Barlow, Mathew ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c University of Massachusetts Lowell   (United States)

Author keywords

Central Southwest Asia; Drought; East Africa; ENSO diversity; La Ni a; Tropical warm pool

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894469099     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-014-2083-y     Document Type: Article

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