Synoptic components of rainfall variability and trends in southeast Australia

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2459-2472

  Risbey, James S ^a   Mcintosh, Peter C ^a   Pook, Michael J ^a  

^a Bureau of Meteorology Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research   (Australia)

Author keywords

Blocking; Climate change; Climate variability; Drought; Rainfall trends; Synoptic climatology

Indexed keywords

BLOCKING; CAUSAL EXPLANATIONS; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; RAINFALL TRENDS; RAINFALL VARIABILITY; SOUTHEAST AUSTRALIA; SYNOPTIC CLIMATOLOGY; SYNOPTIC SYSTEMS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CUTOFF FREQUENCY; DROUGHT;

RAIN;

BAROCLINIC MOTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DROUGHT; FRONTAL FEATURE; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; TREND ANALYSIS;

AUSTRALIA; MALLEE; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA];

EID: 84883165934     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.3597     Document Type: Article

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