Does a Strong El Niño Imply a Higher Predictability of Extreme Drought?

Scientific Reports

Volumn 7, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Wang, Shanshan ^a,b   Yuan, Xing ^a   Li, Yaohui ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHINA; DROUGHT; FORECASTING; LATITUDE; PRECURSOR; SNOW COVER; SPRING; STATISTICAL MODEL; SUMMER; WARMING; ARTICLE;

EID: 85009910024     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep40741     Document Type: Article

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