Recent apparent changes in relationships between the El Niño - Southern oscillation and Australian rainfall and temperature

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 23, 1996, Pages 3357-3360

  Nicholls, Neville ^a,d   Lavery, Beth ^a,d   Frederiksen, Carsten ^a,d   Drosdowsky, Wasyl ^a,d   Torok, Simon ^b,c  

^a Bureau Meteorology Research Centre   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; RAIN; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE;

EL NINO SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION INDEX;

CLIMATE CHANGE; RAIN;

EL NINO/SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; RAINFALL; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION INDEX; TEMPERATURE; TIME SERIES;

AUSTRALIA;

ANNUAL RAINFALL; AUSTRALIAN RAINFALL; MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE; MODEL EXPERIMENTS; PREVIOUS YEAR; RAINFALL DATA; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION INDEX;

EID: 0030282219     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL03166     Document Type: Article

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