"El Niño Like" hydroclimate responses to last millennium volcanic eruptions

Journal of Climate

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 2907-2921

  Stevenson, Samantha ^a   Otto Bliesner, Bette ^a   Fasullo, John ^a   Brady, Esther ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Atm Ocean Structure Phenomena; Circulation Dynamics; Climate variability; Drought; ENSO; Paleoclimate; Physical Meteorology and Climatology; Teleconnections

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; FIGHTER AIRCRAFT; NICKEL; TROPICS; VOLCANOES;

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; ENSO; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; PALEOCLIMATES; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; TELECONNECTION PATTERNS; TELECONNECTIONS; WESTERN UNITED STATES;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE VARIATION; CLIMATOLOGY; DROUGHT; EL NINO; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; PALEOCLIMATE; TELECONNECTION; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

EID: 84964869690     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0239.1     Document Type: Article

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