Role of the strengthened El Niño teleconnection in the May 2015 floods over the southern Great Plains

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 19, 2015, Pages 8140-8146

  Simon Wang, S Y ^a   Huang, Wan Ru ^b   Hsu, Huang Hsiung ^c   Gillies, Robert R ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c RESEARCH CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

El Ni o; flood; global warming; teleconnection; Texas; tropical heating

Indexed keywords

FLOODS; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES;

ANTHROPOGENIC GLOBAL WARMING; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; EARTH SYSTEM MODEL; PRECIPITATION ANOMALIES; SOUTHERN GREAT PLAINS; SPRING PRECIPITATION; TELECONNECTIONS; TEXAS;

NICKEL;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; EL NINO; FLOOD; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GAS; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TELECONNECTION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GREAT PLAINS; GULF OF MEXICO; OKLAHOMA [UNITED STATES]; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84947044016     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL065211     Document Type: Article

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