Droughts related to quasi-global oscillations: A diagnostic teleconnection analysis in North Ethiopia

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1534-1542

  Lanckriet, Sil ^a   Frankl, Amaury ^a   Adgo, Enyew ^b   Termonia, Piet ^a,c   Nyssen, Jan ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b BAHIR DAR UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^c ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF BELGIUM   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Climate teleconnection; Drought; El Ni o; Empirical orthogonal teleconnection

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATOLOGY; FOOD SUPPLY; RAIN; RAIN GAGES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEA LEVEL; STORM SEWERS;

ATMOSPHERIC PATTERN; ATMOSPHERIC TELECONNECTIONS; INDIAN OCEAN DIPOLES; MEAN SEA LEVEL PRESSURES; MULTIVARIATE REGRESSION; RAINFALL VARIABILITY; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; TELECONNECTIONS;

DROUGHT;

EID: 84930378217     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.4074     Document Type: Article

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