The Westerly Index as complementary indicator of the North Atlantic oscillation in explaining drought variability across Europe

• Main Authors: Vicente Serrano, Sergio M., García Herrera, Ricardo Francisco, Barriopedro Cepero, David, Azorín Molina, César, López Moreno, Juan I., Martín Hernández, Natalia, Tomás Burguera, Miquel, Gimeno, Luis, Nieto, Raquel
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer 2016
• Subjects: 52; Atmospheric circulation; Meteorological drought; Climate variability; Time-scales; Iberian peninsula; Precipitation; Trends; Nao; winter; Modes; Astrofísica; Astronomía (Física); Ricardo; North Atlantic; North Atlantic oscillation
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/18996; https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-015-2875-8

© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015. The authors wish to acknowledge Ricardo Trigo and one anonymous reviewer for their detailed and helpful comments to the original manuscript. The data for this paper are available at Spanish National Research Council repository (http://sac.csic.es/spei/databa...