Changes in climate extremes over the Australian region and New Zealand during the twentieth century

Climatic Change

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 183-202

  Plummer, Neil ^a   Salinger, M James ^b   Nicholls, Neville ^a   Suppiah, Ramasamy ^c   Hennessy, Kevin J ^c   Leighton, Robert M ^a   Trewin, Blair ^d   Page, Cher M ^c   Lough, Janice M ^e  

^a BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

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

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^e AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; EXTREME EVENT; TEMPERATURE;

AUSTRALIA; NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 0032769398     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005472418209     Document Type: Article

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