Disentangling the multiple sources of large-scale variability in Australian wintertime precipitation

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 17, 2014, Pages 6377-6392

  Maher, Penelope ^a   Sherwood, Steven C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; GLOBAL WARMING; RAIN;

ATMOSPHERIC BLOCKING; LARGE-SCALE PRECIPITATION; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSIONS; OBJECTIVE APPROACHES; PRECIPITATION CHANGE; PRECIPITATION TRENDS; PRECIPITATION VARIABILITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

TROPICS;

EID: 84905178000     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00659.1     Document Type: Article

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