An investigation of the links between ENSO flavors and rainfall processes in Southeastern Australia

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 137, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3786-3795

  Brown, Jaclyn N ^a   McIntosh, Peter C ^b   Pook, Michael J ^b   Risbey, James S ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b Bureau of Meteorology Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIAN RAINFALL; CUT-OFF LOW; CUT-OFF LOW PRESSURE; DRAW-IN; MARINE BOUNDARY LAYERS; MOIST AIR; RAINFALL VARIATION; SIMILAR NUMBERS;

LANDFORMS; NICKEL COMPOUNDS;

RAIN;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; EL NINO; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM; RAINFALL; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 77649320862     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009MWR3066.1     Document Type: Article

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