Large scale and sub-regional connections in the lead up to summer heat wave and extreme rainfall events in eastern Australia

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 44, Issue 7-8, 2015, Pages 1823-1840

  Boschat, Ghyslaine ^a   Pezza, Alexandre ^a   Simmonds, Ian ^a   Perkins, Sarah ^b   Cowan, Tim ^c   Purich, Ariaan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australian climate; Blocking; Extreme rainfall; Heat wave; Sea surface temperature; Synoptic climatology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84936124192     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-014-2214-5     Document Type: Article

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