Asymmetry in the response of eastern Australia extreme rainfall to low-frequency Pacific variability

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2271-2277

  King, Andrew D ^a   Alexander, Lisa V ^a   Donat, Markus G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; climate extremes; ENSO; IPO; rainfall; reanalysis

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; CLIMATE EXTREMES; ENSO; IPO; REANALYSIS;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; RAIN;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ASYMMETRY; DATA SET; DECADAL VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; FLOODING; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; LA NINA; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PREDICTION; RAINFALL;

AUSTRALIA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84879909568     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50427     Document Type: Article

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