Does the Southern Annular Mode contribute to the persistence of the multidecade-long drought over southwest Western Australia?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 14, 2011, Pages

  Cai, W ^a   Van Rensch, P ^a   Borlace, S ^a   Cowan, T ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; DROUGHT; GLOBAL WARMING;

20TH CENTURY; ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS; AUSTRAL WINTER; NON-LINEAR IMPACT; OBSERVATIONAL DATA; POSITIVE SHIFT; SOUTHERN ANNULAR MODE; SOUTHWEST WESTERN AUSTRALIA; TELECONNECTIONS; WINTER RAINFALL;

RAIN;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CLIMATE MODELING; DECADAL VARIATION; DROUGHT; GLOBAL WARMING; RAINFALL; TELECONNECTION; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

AUSTRALIA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 79961103955     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL047943     Document Type: Article

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