Recent Summer Rainfall Increase and Surface Cooling over Northern Australia since the Late 1970s: A Response to Warming in the Tropical Western Pacific

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 18, 2013, Pages 7221-7239

  Li, Xiao Feng ^a   Yu, Jingjing ^a   Li, Yun ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; AUSTRALIAN CONTINENTS; CONTROLLING FACTORS; NORTH-EAST AUSTRALIA; NORTH-EAST INDIAN OCEAN; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SOUTH INDIAN OCEAN; TROPICAL WESTERN PACIFIC;

COOLING; OCEANOGRAPHY; STORMS; WETTING;

RAIN;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; COOLING; CYCLONE; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAINFALL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TREND ANALYSIS; WARMING;

AUSTRALIA; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (NORTHEAST); INDIAN OCEAN (SOUTH); PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 84884255122     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00786.1     Document Type: Article

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