Changes in Southern Hemisphere rainfall, circulation and weather systems

MODSIM 2011 - 19th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation - Sustaining Our Future: Understanding and Living with Uncertainty

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2712-2718

  Frederiksen, J S ^a   Frederiksen, C S ^b   Osbrough, S L ^a   Sisson, J M ^b  

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

^b BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climate modelling; Southern Hemisphere circulation; Weather systems

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL CYCLE; AUSTRALIA; CLIMATE MODELLING; CYCLOGENESIS; PEAK AMPLITUDE; PRIMITIVE EQUATIONS; REDUCED GROWTH RATE; SEASONAL CYCLE; SOUTHEASTERN AUSTRALIA; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE CIRCULATION; SOUTHERN WINTER; STORM TRACK; SUBTROPICAL JET; WEATHER SYSTEMS; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; GROWTH RATE; RAIN; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TROPICS;

STORMS;

EID: 84858815857     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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