Sensitivity of Australian rainfall to inter-El Niño variations

Journal of Climate

Volumn 20, Issue 16, 2007, Pages 4211-4226

  Wang, Guomin ^a   Hendon, Harry H ^a  

^a BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; GLOBAL WARMING; RAIN;

EL NINO; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; ZONAL DISTRIBUTION;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; DROUGHT; EL NINO; RAINFALL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 34548502685     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI4228.1     Document Type: Article

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