Assessing the impact of El Niño Modoki on seasonal precipitation in Colombia

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 124, Issue , 2015, Pages 41-61

  Córdoba Machado, Samir ^a,b   Palomino Lemus, Reiner ^a,b   Gámiz Fortis, Sonia Raquel ^a   Castro Díez, Yolanda ^a   Esteban Parra, María Jesús ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b Group of Natural Products Technological University of Chocó   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Colombia; El Ni o; El Ni o Modoki; Seasonal precipitation; Singular value decomposition; Tropical Pacific SST

Indexed keywords

SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION;

COLOMBIA; COUPLING STRENGTHS; PRECIPITATION MODEL; SEASONAL PRECIPITATIONS; TROPICAL PACIFIC SST;

NICKEL;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ASSESSMENT METHOD; EL NINO; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION;

COLOMBIA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 84949115981     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2014.11.003     Document Type: Article

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