Snowfall increase in coastal East Antarctica linked with southwest Western Australian drought

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 267-272

  Van Ommen, Tas D ^a   Morgan, Vin ^a  

^a ANTARCTIC CLIMATE AND ECOSYSTEMS COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; DECADAL VARIATION; DROUGHT; LAND USE; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; SNOW; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ANTARCTICA; AUSTRALIA; EAST ANTARCTICA; LAW DOME; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 77950525644     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo761     Document Type: Article

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