Publisher:Pasadena, CA : Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2004.
Citation:American Meteorology Society Annual Meeting, 15th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations, Seattle, WA, January 11-15, 2004
Abstract:
In this paper we analyze the first five years of the first global land and ocean remote-sensing record of rainfall. We distill the information into a few objective indices, the first principal components of the rain anomaly, and extend them back in time to show how the global remote-sensing record implies that El Nino is indeed the major driver of the global interannual variability of rainfall.