Variability of the Australian Monsoon and precipitation trends at Darwin

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 22, 2014, Pages 8487-8500

  Evans, Stuart ^a   Marchand, Roger ^a   Ackerman, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Australia; Classification; Interannual variability; Monsoons; Precipitation; Trends

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); RAIN;

AUSTRALIA; DAILY RAINFALL; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; INTRASEASONAL VARIABILITY; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MONSOONS; PRECIPITATION TRENDS; TRENDS;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLASSIFICATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEASONAL VARIATION; TREND ANALYSIS;

AUSTRALIA; DARWIN; NORTHERN TERRITORY;

EID: 84909594896     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00422.1     Document Type: Article

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