Research Article

Studying Summer Season Drought in Western Russia

Table 1

A list of years examined in this study separated by ENSO phase. Each ENSO year begins in October and ends in September. The El Niño year (e.g., 1969) is defined as starting in October (1969) and ending in September (1970). ENSO definition can be found online at http://www.coaps.fsu.edu/jma.shtml.

La Niña (LN)Neutral (NEU)El Niño (EN)

1970-19711977–19811972
1973–19751983–19851976
19881992–19961982
1998-19992000-20011986-1987
20072003–20051991
201020081997
2011-20122002
2009