Statistical characterisation and attribution of recent rainfall and runoff in the Murray-Darling Basin

18th World IMACS Congress and MODSIM 2009 - International Congress on Modelling and Simulation: Interfacing Modelling and Simulation with Mathematical and Computational Sciences, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2812-2818

  Potter, N J ^a   Chiew, F H S ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Drought; Murray Darling Basin; Rainfall; Runoff

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; RUNOFF;

DIFFERENT EFFECTS; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; MURRAY-DARLING BASIN; MURRAY-DARLING BASINS (MDB); POTENTIAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; RAINFALL AND RUNOFFS; RECURRENCE INTERVALS; SOUTH-EASTERN AUSTRALIA;

RAIN;

EID: 85086223704     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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