A catalog of moisture sources for continental climatic regions

Water Resources Research

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 5322-5328

  Nieto, Raquel ^a   Castillo, Rodrigo ^a   Drumond, Anita ^a   Gimeno, Luis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

climate change; oceanic sources of moisture; transport of moisture; water cycle

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATIC REGIONS; CONTINENTAL CLIMATE; EVAPORATION RATE; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; MOISTURE TRANSPORT; PRECIPITATION CHANGE; SOUTHERN ANNULAR MODE; WATER CYCLE;

MOISTURE;

EID: 84904664625     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013WR013901     Document Type: Article

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