Is Australia's continued warming caused by drought?

Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Journal

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 93-96

  Nicholls, Neville ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANNUAL VARIATION; DROUGHT; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; REGIONAL CLIMATE; TREND ANALYSIS; WARMING;

EID: 84866862777     PISSN: 1836716X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.22499/2.6202.004     Document Type: Article

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