New Zealand climate: Temperature and precipitation variations and their links with atmospheric circulation 1930-1994

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1049-1071

  Salinger, M J ^a   Mullan, A B ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Climate monitoring region technique(s); Climate trends; Climate variable(s); Decadal variability; El Nino; New Zealand; Principal component analysis

Indexed keywords

CIRCULATION MODELING; CLIMATE MODELING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; OROGRAPHY; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 0032741166     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0088(199908)19:10<1049::AID-JOC417>3.0.CO;2-Z     Document Type: Article

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