Trends in the intensity and frequency of heavy rainfall in tropical Australia and links with the Southern Oscillation

Australian Meteorological Magazine

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-17

  Suppiah, Ramasamy ^a   Hennessy, Kevin J ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b NONE

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