Interannual rainfall extremes over southwest Western Australia linked to Indian Ocean climate variability

Journal of Climate

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1948-1969

  England, Matthew H ^a   Ummenhofer, Caroline C ^a   Santoso, Agus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT FLUX; RAIN; TROPICS;

AIR-SEA HEAT FLUXES; INDIAN OCEAN CLIMATE VARIABILITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; RAINFALL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 33745282992     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3700.1     Document Type: Article

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