Climatic variability related to El Niño in Ecuador − a historical background
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Climatic variability related to El Niño in Ecuador – a historical background
This paper reports on an investigation into the chronology of El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events, during the period from the arrival of conquistadores in Ecuador in 1532 until the year 1900. A number of probable El Niño events and drought years can be dated from anecdotal reports of significant rainfall and drought in the equatorial region. The evidence of ENSO has been documented from ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Advances in Geosciences
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1680-7359
DOI: 10.5194/adgeo-6-237-2006