Climatic influences on rainfall and runoff variability in the southeast region of the Murray-Darling Basin

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 291-311

  Kamruzzaman, M ^a   Beecham, S ^a   Metcalfe, A V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Akaike Information Criterion; Correlation; Factor analysis and pre whitened process; Regression model

Indexed keywords

AKAIKE INFORMATION CRITERION; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BENCHMARK MODELS; CLIMATIC INDEX; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GENERALIZED LEAST SQUARE; INDIAN OCEAN; LATENT FACTOR; MURRAY-DARLING BASIN; PACIFIC OCEAN; REGRESSION MODEL; RIVER BASINS; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SEASONAL TRENDS; SEASONALITY; SOUTHERN OCEAN; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION INDEX;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CATCHMENTS; CORRELATION METHODS; FACTOR ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; OPTICAL CORRELATION; RAIN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RUNOFF; SEA LEVEL;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AKAIKE INFORMATION CRITERION; CORRELATION; FACTOR ANALYSIS; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RUNOFF; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TREND ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; AUSTRALIA; INDIAN OCEAN; MURRAY-DARLING BASIN; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84872606390     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.3422     Document Type: Article

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