Decadal predictability of river discharge with climate oscillations over the 20th and early 21st century

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 24, 2015, Pages 10689-10695

  Wanders, Niko ^a,b   Wada, Yoshihide ^b,c,d  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^d NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies   (United States)

Author keywords

AAO; climate oscillations; discharge; ENSO; NAO; PDO

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); FORECASTING;

AAO; CLIMATE OSCILLATION; ENSO; NAO; PDO;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ANTARCTIC OSCILLATION; CLIMATE SIGNAL; CORRELATION; DECADAL VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; EXTREME EVENT; FORECASTING METHOD; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; LONG-TERM CHANGE; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; PREDICTION; RIVER DISCHARGE; TIME SERIES; TWENTIETH CENTURY; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84955213016     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL066929     Document Type: Article

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