Evaluation of rainfall drivers and teleconnections in an ACCESS AMIP run

Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Journal

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 91-105

  Risbey, James S ^a   McIntosh, Peter C ^a   Pook, Michael J ^a   Rashid, Harun A ^a   Hirst, Anthony C ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TELECONNECTION; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

AUSTRALIA; INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 84858235612     PISSN: 1836716X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.22499/2.6102.001     Document Type: Article

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