Precipitation response to La Niña and global warming in the Indo-Pacific

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 3293-3307

  Chung, Christine T Y ^a   Power, Scott B ^a  

^a BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climate variability; El Ni o Southern Oscillation; Global warming

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896411123     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-014-2105-9     Document Type: Article

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