Australian dust storms: Temporal trends and relationships with synoptic pressure distributions (1960-99)

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1581-1599

  Ekström, Marie ^a   Mctainsh, Grant H ^b   Chappell, Adrian ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Australia; Dust storms; Non hierarchical classification; Pressure patterns; Principal component analysis

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; COASTAL ENGINEERING; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEA LEVEL; STORMS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; TROPICAL ENGINEERING;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; DUST STORMS; METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS; SUMMER PRECIPITATION;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DUST STORM; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; INDIAN OCEAN; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 7044241268     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.1072     Document Type: Article

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