An interpretation of Australian rainfall projections

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Shi, G ^a,b   Ribbe, J ^a   Cai, W ^b   Cowan, T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL WARMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEAWATER; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATE MODELS; RAINFALL PROJECTIONS; RAINFALL REDUCTION;

RAIN;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; PACIFIC OCEAN; TASMAN SEA;

EID: 40849088043     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL032436     Document Type: Article

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