Long-term changes in Australian tropical cyclone numbers

Atmospheric Science Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 292-298

  Dowdy, Andrew J ^a  

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

Author keywords

Change; Climate; Cyclone; Hurricane; Tropical; Typhoon

Indexed keywords

EID: 84911010571     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1530261X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asl2.502     Document Type: Article

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