An extended high-quality historical rainfall dataset for Australia

Australian Meteorological Magazine

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 27-38

  Lavery, Beth ^a   Joung, Grace ^a   Nicholls, Neville ^a  

^a BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

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