Unraveling El Niño's impact on the East Asian Monsoon and Yangtze River summer flooding

Strong El Niño events are followed by massive summer monsoon flooding over the Yangtze River basin (YRB), home to about a third of the population in China. Although the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) provides the main source of seasonal climate predictability for many parts of the Earth, the me...

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Published in:	Geophysical research letters Vol. 43; no. 21; pp. 11,375 - 11,382
Main Authors:	Zhang, Wenjun, Jin, Fei‐Fei, Stuecker, Malte F., Wittenberg, Andrew T., Timmermann, Axel, Ren, Hong‐Li, Kug, Jong‐Seong, Cai, Wenju, Cane, Mark
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Washington John Wiley & Sons, Inc 16.11.2016 American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Subjects:	Annual variations Anomalies Asian Atmospheric precipitations Climate Complexity Earth East Asian monsoon El Nino El Nino events El Nino phenomena El Nino-Southern Oscillation event ENSO Flavors Flood predictions Flooding Floods Meteorology monsoon Monsoon floods Monsoons Ocean currents Ocean temperature Precipitation Precipitation anomalies River basins Rivers Robustness Sea surface Sea surface temperature Sea surface temperature anomalies Southern Oscillation Summer Summer monsoon Surface temperature Temperature anomalies Temperature effects tropical climate Wind Winter Yangtze River East Asia China China, People's Rep., Changjiang R
ISSN:	0094-8276, 1944-8007
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