Northern Eurasian heat waves and droughts

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 3169-3207

  Schubert, Siegfried D ^a   Wang, Hailan ^a,c   Koster, Randal D ^a   Suarez, Max J ^a   Groisman, Pavel Ya ^b  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTER   (United States)

^c SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DROUGHT; NASA; OCEANOGRAPHY; SOIL MOISTURE;

ATMOSPHERIC VARIABILITY; DECADAL TIMESCALE; DECADAL VARIABILITY; GODDARD EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEMS; LITERATURE SURVEY; PRECIPITATION CHANGE; PRECIPITATION VARIABILITY; SURFACE TEMPERATURES;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; EXTREME EVENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEVERE WEATHER;

EURASIA;

EID: 84899061725     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00360.1     Document Type: Article

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