Increasing autumn drought over southern China associated with ENSO regime shift

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 4020-4026

  Zhang, Wenjun ^a   Jin, Fei Fei ^b   Turner, Andrew ^c  

^a Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

autumn drought; decadal change; ENSO regime shift

Indexed keywords

EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

DECADAL CHANGE; EASTERN PACIFIC; PRECIPITATION DEFICITS; REGIME SHIFT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES; SOUTHERN CHINA; WATER CRISIS;

DROUGHT;

DROUGHT; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION;

CHINA;

EID: 84901880270     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL060130     Document Type: Article

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