El Niño's impact on California precipitation: Seasonality, regionality, and El Niño intensity

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2016, Pages

  Jong, Bor Ting ^a,b   Ting, Mingfang ^a   Seager, Richard ^a  

^a International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

California precipitation; El Ni o; Teleconnection

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; DROUGHT; OCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE WATERS; WATER RESOURCES;

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIONS; CALIFORNIA; CLIMATE PREDICTABILITY; MEAN SEA SURFACES; OBSERVATIONAL DATA; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; TELECONNECTIONS; WINTER PRECIPITATION;

NICKEL;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; DROUGHT; EL NINO; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONALITY; TELECONNECTION;

CALIFORNIA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EAST); UNITED STATES;

EID: 85012308000     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/11/5/054021     Document Type: Article

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