Impact of the Indian Ocean high pressure system on winter precipitation over western and southwestern Australia

Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Journal

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 159-170

  Hameed, Sultan ^a   Iqbal, M J ^b   Saqib Ur Rehman, ^b   Collins, Dean ^c  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARACHI   (Pakistan)

^c BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DROUGHT; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HIGH PRESSURE SYSTEM; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; WINTER;

AUSTRALIA; INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 84858186981     PISSN: 1836716X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.22499/2.6103.002     Document Type: Article

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