Daily precipitation and tropical moisture exports across the eastern United States: An application of archetypal analysis to identify spatiotemporal structure

Journal of Climate

Volumn 28, Issue 21, 2015, Pages 8585-8602

  Steinschneider, Scott ^a   Lall, Upmanu ^a  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; MOISTURE; OCEANOGRAPHY; ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WATERS;

ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATIONS; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION ANALYSIS; GENERALIZED LINEAR MODEL; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; PRECIPITATION VARIABILITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SPATIO-TEMPORAL STRUCTURES; SPATIOTEMPORAL VARIABILITY;

TROPICS;

ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATION; ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TELECONNECTION;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84946219375     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0340.1     Document Type: Article

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