Relationships between rainfall in the southwest of Western Australia and near-global patterns of sea-surface temperature and mean sea-level pressure variability

Australian Meteorological Magazine

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 23-33

  Li, Fuqin ^a   Chambers, Lynda E ^a   Nicholls, Neville ^a  

^a BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; RAINFALL; SEA LEVEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; WESTERN AUSTRALIA; WORLD;

EID: 20644453549     PISSN: 00049743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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