Impact of historical land cover change on daily indices of climate extremes including droughts in eastern Australia

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Deo, R C ^a   Syktus, J I ^b   McAlpine, C A ^a   Lawrence, P J ^c   McGowan, H A ^a   Phinn, S R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b DEPARTMENT OF EMPLOYMENT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION   (Australia)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DAILY RAINFALL; DROUGHT DURATION; EASTERN AUSTRALIA; EL NINO EVENT; ENSEMBLE SIMULATION; LAND COVER; LAND-COVER CHANGE; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS;

DROUGHT; LANDFORMS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CONDITIONS; DROUGHT; EL NINO; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; LAND USE CHANGE; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 67449138340     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL037666     Document Type: Article

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