A review of past and projected changes in Australia's rainfall

R Dey, SC Lewis, JM Arblaster… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
There has been much attention given to the spatial and temporal characteristics of changes
in mean and extreme rainfall over Australia during the past century. As Australia is the …

Variability and long‐term change in Australian monsoon rainfall: A review

H Heidemann, T Cowan, BJ Henley… - Wiley …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The Australian monsoon delivers seasonal rain across a vast area of the continent stretching
from the far northern tropics to the semi‐arid regions. This article provides a review of …

Monsoons in a changing world: A regional perspective in a global context

A Kitoh, H Endo, K Krishna Kumar… - Journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
We provide a new view of global and regional monsoonal rainfall, and their changes in the
21st century under RCP4. 5 and RCP8. 5 scenarios as projected by 29 climate models that …

Extreme marine warming across tropical Australia during austral summer 2015–2016

JA Benthuysen, ECJ Oliver, M Feng… - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract During austral summer 2015–2016, prolonged extreme ocean warming events,
known as marine heatwaves (MHWs), occurred in the waters around tropical Australia …

[HTML][HTML] Aerosol-and greenhouse gas-induced changes in summer rainfall and circulation in the Australasian region: a study using single-forcing climate simulations

LD Rotstayn, SJ Jeffrey, MA Collier… - Atmospheric …, 2012 - acp.copernicus.org
We use a coupled atmosphere-ocean global climate model (CSIRO-Mk3. 6) to investigate
the drivers of trends in summer rainfall and circulation in the vicinity of northern Australia. As …

[HTML][HTML] Interdecadal change of the South China Sea summer monsoon onset

Y Kajikawa, B Wang - Journal of Climate, 2012 - journals.ametsoc.org
A significant advance in the onset dates of the South China Sea summer monsoon (SCSSM)
is detected around 1993/94: the epochal mean onset date is 30 May for 1979–93 and 14 …

On the ningaloo niño/niña

T Kataoka, T Tozuka, S Behera, T Yamagata - Climate dynamics, 2014 - Springer
Using both observational and reanalysis data, evolution processes of a regional climate
phenomenon off Western Australia named recently “Ningaloo Niño (Niña)” are studied in …

Sea level extremes and compounding marine heatwaves in coastal Indonesia

W Han, L Zhang, GA Meehl, S Kido, T Tozuka… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Low-lying island nations like Indonesia are vulnerable to sea level Height EXtremes (HEXs).
When compounded by marine heatwaves, HEXs have larger ecological and societal impact …

A comparison of regional monsoon variability using monsoon indices

SY Yim, B Wang, J Liu, Z Wu - Climate dynamics, 2014 - Springer
The present study aims to (a) examine meteorological basis for construction of regional
monsoon indices and (b) explore the commonality and differences among tropical regional …

Analysis of rainfall seasonality from observations and climate models

S Pascale, V Lucarini, X Feng, A Porporato, S Hasson - Climate Dynamics, 2015 - Springer
Two new indicators of rainfall seasonality based on information entropy, the relative entropy
(RE) and the dimensionless seasonality index (DSI), together with the mean annual rainfall …