ENSO-related rainfall changes over the New Guinea region

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 118, Issue 19, 2013, Pages 10,665-10,675

  Smith, Ian ^a   Moise, Aurel ^a   Inape, Kasis ^b   Murphy, Brad ^a   Colman, Rob ^a   Power, Scott ^a   Chung, Christine ^a  

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

^b Papua New Guinea National Meteorological Service   (Papua New Guinea)

Author keywords

ENSO; New Guinea; NINO34; rainfall

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ESTIMATION; RAIN;

CORRELATION PATTERNS; ENSO; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; NEW GUINEA; NINO34; NON-LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASUREMENT MISSIONS;

RAIN GAGES;

DATA SET; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; LINEARITY; RAINFALL; RESOLUTION; TOPOGRAPHY; TRMM; TROPOSPHERE;

NEW GUINEA;

EID: 84887131926     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21698996     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrd.50818     Document Type: Article

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