Rainfall changes over Southwestern Australia and their relationship to the southern annular mode and ENSO

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 5801-5814

  Raut, Bhupendra A ^a   Jakob, Christian ^a   Reeder, Michael J ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Antarctic oscillation; Australia; Climate change; Climate classification regimes; Southern oscillation; Trends

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; SEA LEVEL;

ANTARCTIC OSCILLATION; AUSTRALIA; CLIMATE CLASSIFICATION/REGIMES; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; TRENDS;

RAIN;

ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERIC FRONT; CLIMATE CHANGE; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; TREND ANALYSIS;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84905159566     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00773.1     Document Type: Article

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