SAM and regional rainfall in IPCC AR4 models: Can anthropogenic forcing account for southwest Western Australian winter rainfall reduction?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 24, 2006, Pages

  Cai, Wenju ^a   Cowan, Tim ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; CLIMATE CHANGE; METEOROLOGICAL PROBLEMS;

ANTHROPOGENIC FORCING; SOUTHERN ANNULAR MODE (SAM); SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SOUTHWEST WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FORCING; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; RAINFALL; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 34548035629     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL028037     Document Type: Article

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