El Niño-La Niña cycle and recent trends in continental evaporation

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 122-126

  Miralles, Diego G ^a   Van Den Berg, Martinus J ^b   Gash, John H ^c,d   Parinussa, Robert M ^c   De Jeu, Richard A M ^c   Beck, Hylke E ^c   Holmes, Thomas R H ^e   Jiménez, Carlos ^f   Verhoest, Niko E C ^b   Dorigo, Wouter A ^g   Teuling, Adriaan J ^e   Johannes Dolman, A ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^e AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^f CNRS   (France)

^g VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^h WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; EVAPORATION; GLOBAL WARMING; LA NINA; WATER FLOW; WATER STRESS;

AFRICA; AUSTRALIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 84896809814     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2068     Document Type: Article

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