Understanding and predicting the strong Southern Annular Mode and its impact on the record wet east Australian spring 2010

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 44, Issue 9-10, 2015, Pages 2807-2824

  Lim, Eun Pa ^a   Hendon, Harry H ^a  

^a BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australian rainfall extreme 2010; La Ni a 2010; Seasonal forecasts; Southern Annular Mode 2010

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925497149     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-014-2400-5     Document Type: Article

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