Recent unprecedented skewness towards positive Indian Ocean Dipole occurrences and its impact on Australian rainfall

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Cai, W ^a   Cowan, T ^a   Sullivan, A ^a  

^a CIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

20TH CENTURY; AUSTRAL WINTER; AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIAN RAINFALL; CIRCULATION CHANGES; FUTURE CLIMATE; HIGH FREQUENCY; INDIAN OCEAN DIPOLE;

GLOBAL WARMING; OCEANOGRAPHY;

RAIN;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; RAINFALL; SKEWNESS; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 68949103484     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL037604     Document Type: Article

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