Long-term stationarity of El Niño–Southern Oscillation teleconnections in southeastern Australia

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 46, Issue 9-10, 2016, Pages 2991-3006

  Ashcroft, Linden ^a,b   Gergis, Joëlle ^a   Karoly, David John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

Author keywords

El Ni o Southern Oscillation; Historical climatology; Instrumental data; Palaeoclimatology; Southeastern Australia; Southern Hemisphere; Teleconnections

Indexed keywords

EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; INSTRUMENTATION; NINETEENTH CENTURY; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; PALEOCLIMATE; RAINFALL; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TELECONNECTION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84937130402     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-015-2746-3     Document Type: Article

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