Temporal variability of climate in south-eastern Australia: a reassessment of flood- and drought-dominated regimes

Australian Geographer

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 241-255

  Kirkup, Helen ^a   Brierley, Gary ^a   Brooks, Andrew ^a   Pitman, Andrew ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATIC CONTROL; FLOOD; RIVER METAMORPHOSIS IN;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0031711577     PISSN: 00049182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00049189808703217     Document Type: Article

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