 |
| Titel |
Robustness of the influence of El Niño on the spatial extent of tropical drought |
| VerfasserIn |
B. Lyon |
| Medientyp |
Artikel
|
| Sprache |
Englisch
|
| ISSN |
1680-7340
|
| Digitales Dokument |
URL |
| Erschienen |
In: 1st Alexander von Humboldt International Conference ; Nr. 6 (2006-02-06), S.207-209 |
| Datensatznummer |
250003260
|
| Publikation (Nr.) |
 copernicus.org/adgeo-6-207-2006.pdf |
|
|
|
|
|
| Zusammenfassung |
| It has been well established that drought frequently emerges in several
tropical regions following the onset of El Niño. An important
characteristic of such droughts is their spatial extent, which has recently
been linked to the strength of a particular El Niño event. Here the
robustness of this relationship is examined through comparison of results
from several gridded precipitation analyses for the global tropics. It is
found that there is very good agreement across these datasets, including
those which incorporate satellite rainfall estimates, confirming that
maximum drought extent in tropical land areas increases nearly linearly with
associated maximum sea surface temperature anomalies in the east-central
tropical Pacific during El Niño events. |
| |
|
| Teil von |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|