Seasonal and regional signature of the projected southern Australian rainfall reduction

Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Journal

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 54-71

  Hope, Pandora ^a   Grose, Michael R ^b   Timbal, Bertrand ^a   Dowdy, Andrew J ^a   Bhend, Jonas ^b,c   Katzfey, Jack J ^b   Bedin, Tim ^a,b   Wilson, Louise ^b   Whetton, Penny H ^b  

^a BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DOWNSCALING; RAINFALL; REGIONAL PATTERN; SEASONAL VARIATION;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84946745274     PISSN: 1836716X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.22499/2.6501.005     Document Type: Article

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