A millennial proxy record of ENSO and eastern Australian rainfall from the law dome ice core, east Antarctica

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 710-725

  Vance, Tessa R ^a   Van Ommen, Tas D ^a   Curran, Mark A J ^a   Plummer, Chris T ^b   Moy, Andrew D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Australia, Teleconnections, Rainfall, ENSO, Paleoclimate

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTICA; ATMOSPHERIC ANOMALY; AUSTRALIAN RAINFALL; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; INTER-DECADAL PACIFIC OSCILLATIONS; SOUTH-EASTERN AUSTRALIA; SOUTHERN LATITUDES; TELECONNECTIONS;

DEPOSITION; DOMES; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

RAIN;

CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; DECADAL VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ICE CORE; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RAINFALL; SALT DOME; SEA SALT; TELECONNECTION; WIND VELOCITY; ZONAL WIND;

ANTARCTICA; AUSTRALIA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTH); WEST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 84874883648     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00003.1     Document Type: Article

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