Precipitation changes due to the introduction of eddy-resolved sea surface temperatures into simulations of the "Pasha Bulker" Australian east coast low of June 2007

Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics

Volumn 125, Issue 1-2, 2014, Pages 1-15

  Chambers, Christopher R S ^a,b   Brassington, Gary B ^c   Simmonds, Ian ^a   Walsh, Kevin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b Bureau of Meteorology ^*  (Australia)

^c BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL ZONE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EDDY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; THUNDERSTORM; WEATHER FORECASTING;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 85027939748     PISSN: 01777971     EISSN: 14365065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00703-014-0318-4     Document Type: Article

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