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The next step that was taken by many scientists involved using these indices to anticipate, <br />or forecast, the sensible seasonable impacts in various regions based on the values (or <br />anticipated values) of these indices. <br />Figure 1. Generalized impacts of the ENSO phenomenon on North America for the January-March <br />time frame (courtesy of NOAA/Climate Prediction Center). <br />It is this ‘forward’ thinking of using climate indices as a potential prognostic tool <br />in assessing the future conditions in various river basins that acts as a prime motivator for <br />this project. However, it should be noted that this project is meant to be more than a <br />‘regional’ scale project as the focus is more on the lines of examining sub-basins (i.e. <br />Districts) of the larger river basins to examine the impacts that may exist on a more <br />detailed basis. <br />Other researchers have developed relationships between these climate indices and <br />various observations of hydrology and meteorology; thus the term hydro-climate indices <br />were developed to refer to them. A description of the analyses and results follows. <br />2 <br />