Century-scale causal relationships between global dry/wet conditions and the state of the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 6528-6537

  Sun, Qiaohong ^a,b   Miao, Chiyuan ^a,b   AghaKouchak, Amir ^c   Duan, Qingyun ^a,b  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b JOINT CENTER FOR GLOBAL CHANGE STUDIES   (China)

^c University of California at Irvine   (United States)

Author keywords

drought; El Ni o Southern Oscillation; North Atlantic Oscillation; Pacific Decadal Oscillation

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; DROUGHT; FLOOD CONTROL; FLOODS; OCEANOGRAPHY;

CAUSAL RELATIONSHIPS; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; GLOBAL LAND SURFACE; GRANGER CAUSALITY TEST; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; STANDARDIZED PRECIPITATION INDEX;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; DROUGHT; DRY SEASON; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FLOOD FORECASTING; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); WET SEASON;

ANTARCTICA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); NORTH AFRICA; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH AMERICA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 84979047275     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016GL069628     Document Type: Article

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