Influences of ENSO, NAO, IOD and PDO on seasonal precipitation regimes in the Yangtze River basin, China

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 3556-3567

  Xiao, Mingzhong ^a   Zhang, Qiang ^a   Singh, Vijay P ^b,c  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Texas A M University   (United States)

^c Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

ENSO; Precipitation; Rotated empirical orthogonal functions; The intensity of wet days; The occurrence of wet days; The Yangtze River basin

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RIVERS; WATERSHEDS;

EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION; ENSO; THE INTENSITY OF WET DAYS; THE OCCURRENCE OF WET DAYS; YANGTZE RIVER BASIN;

CLIMATOLOGY;

EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; INDIAN OCEAN DIPOLE; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; TELECONNECTION; WET SEASON;

CHINA; YANGTZE RIVER;

EID: 84943452587     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.4228     Document Type: Article

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