The Southern Annular Mode: A comparison of indices

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 967-982

  Ho, M ^a   Kiem, A S ^a   Verdon Kidd, D C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIAN RAINFALL; DATA SETS; DEVELOPMENT APPROACH; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; SOUTHERN ANNULAR MODE; TIME-PERIODS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA SET; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84859190312     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-16-967-2012     Document Type: Review

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