North American rainfall and temperature prediction response to the diversity of ENSO

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 46, Issue 9-10, 2016, Pages 3007-3023

  Infanti, Johnna M ^a   Kirtman, Ben P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate prediction; El Ni o; ENSO diversity; North America; Teleconnections

Indexed keywords

EID: 84966429091     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-015-2749-0     Document Type: Article

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