Australian rainfall changes, 1910-1995

Australian Meteorological Magazine

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-13

  Hennessy, Kevin J ^a   Suppiah, Ramasamy ^a   Page, Cher M ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

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