Climate variations and change evident in high-quality climate data for Australia's Antarctic and remote island weather stations

Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Journal

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 247-261

  Jovanovic, Branislava ^a   Braganza, Karl ^a   Collins, Dean ^a   Jones, David ^a  

^a BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; DATA QUALITY; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; RAINFALL; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS;

AUSTRALIA;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 84879093673     PISSN: 1836716X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.22499/2.6204.005     Document Type: Article

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