A new method for extracting the ENSO-independent Indian Ocean Dipole: Application to Australian region tropical cyclone counts

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 38, Issue 11-12, 2012, Pages 2503-2511

  Werner, Angelika ^a   Maharaj, Angela M ^a   Holbrook, Neil J ^b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Climate variability; ENSO; IOD; Tropical cyclones

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; CYCLOGENESIS; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

AUSTRALIA; INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 84861804466     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-011-1133-y     Document Type: Article

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