Projected changes in east Australian midlatitude cyclones during the 21st century

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 334-340

  Pepler, Acacia S ^a   Di Luca, Alejandro ^a   Ji, Fei ^b   Alexander, Lisa V ^a   Evans, Jason P ^a   Sherwood, Steven C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENT AND HERITAGE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; midlatitude cyclone; projections; regional climate models; severe weather

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM INTERCONNECTION; RAIN; STORMS;

AUSTRALIA; MIDLATITUDE CYCLONES; PROJECTIONS; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; SEVERE WEATHER;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; COASTAL ZONE; CYCLONE; EXTREME EVENT; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; FUTURE PROSPECT; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; MIDLATITUDE ENVIRONMENT; REGIONAL CLIMATE; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER AVAILABILITY;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84956588386     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL067267     Document Type: Article

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