Probable causes of the abnormal ridge accompanying the 2013-2014 California drought: ENSO precursor and anthropogenic warming footprint

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 3220-3226

  Wang, S Y ^a   Hipps, Lawrence ^a   Gillies, Robert R ^a   Yoon, Jin Ho ^b  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

anthropogenic warming; California drought; ENSO precursor; teleconnection

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; DROUGHT; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

ANTHROPOGENIC WARMING; CALIFORNIA; CIRCULATION PATTERNS; ENSO PRECURSOR; GREENHOUSE GAS LOADING; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; TELECONNECTIONS; WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AMPLITUDE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; DROUGHT; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; ROSSBY WAVE; TELECONNECTION; WAVE ENERGY;

CALIFORNIA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHWEST); UNITED STATES;

EID: 84901924588     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL059748     Document Type: Article

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