Local sea surface temperatures add to extreme precipitation in northeast Australia during la Niña

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Evans, Jason P ^a   Boyer Souchet, Irne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; FLOOD CONTROL; RAIN;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION CHANGES; AUSTRALIA; EXTREME PRECIPITATION; EXTREME RAINFALL; NORTHERN AUSTRALIA; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODEL SIMULATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); NORTH-EAST AUSTRALIA;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CLIMATE MODELING; LA NINA; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; EXTREME EVENT; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SIMULATION;

AUSTRALIA;

NIA;

EID: 84861378615     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL052014     Document Type: Article

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