The precipitation response over the continental United States to cold tropical pacific sea surface temperatures

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 13, 2014, Pages 5036-5055

  Wang, Hailan ^a   Schubert, Siegfried ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Drought; ENSO; Model evaluation performance; Pacific decadal oscillation; Precipitation; Reanalysis data

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATOLOGY; DROUGHT; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); TROPICS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION ANOMALY; ENSO; MODEL EVALUATION/PERFORMANCE; NASA SEASONAL-TO-INTERANNUAL PREDICTION PROJECTS; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; PRECIPITATION DEFICITS; REANALYSIS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST);

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; DIABATIC PROCESS; DROUGHT; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); GULF OF MEXICO; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); UNITED STATES;

EID: 84903381204     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00453.1     Document Type: Article

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