The role of natural variability and anthropogenic climate change in the 2017/18 tasman sea marine heatwave

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2019, Pages S105-S110

  Perkins Kirkpatrick, S E ^a   King, A D ^b   Cougnon, E A ^c   Grose, M R ^d   Oliver, E C J ^e   Holbrook, N J ^c   Lewis, S C ^b,f   Pourasghar, F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

^e DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 85062089145     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-18-0116.1     Document Type: Article

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