Explaining and forecasting interannual variability in the flow of the Nile River

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1181-1192

  Siam, M S ^a   Eltahir, E A B ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; OSCILLATING FLOW; RIVERS; SURFACE WATERS;

EASTERN PACIFIC OCEAN; HYBRID FORECASTING; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; NATURAL VARIABILITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SOUTHERN INDIAN OCEAN; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ANNUAL VARIATION; DATA SET; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; FORECASTING METHOD; RIVER FLOW; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TELECONNECTION; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (SOUTH); NILE RIVER; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EAST);

EID: 84924130956     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-19-1181-2015     Document Type: Article

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