A monsoon-like southwest Australian circulation and its relation with rainfall in southwest Western Australia

Journal of Climate

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1334-1353

  Feng, Juan ^a   Li, Jianping ^b   Li, Yun ^c  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL CYCLE; ANTICYCLONIC ANOMALIES; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; AUSTRALIA; CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTERS; ECMWF RE-ANALYSIS; EXTERNAL FORCING; INDIAN OCEAN DIPOLES; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; LAND-SEA THERMAL CONTRASTS; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; PRECIPITATION DATA; RAINFALL DECLINE; REANALYSIS; SEASONALITY; SOUTHERN ANNULAR MODE; SOUTHERN INDIAN OCEAN; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SOUTHWEST WESTERN AUSTRALIA; WET AND DRY SEASONS; WINTER RAINFALL;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; METEOROLOGY; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; OCEANOGRAPHY; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

RAIN;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLIMATE VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; RAINFALL; SEASONALITY; WINTER;

AUSTRALIA; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (SOUTH); WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 77953677878     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JCLI2837.1     Document Type: Article

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