The role of internal variability and external forcing on southwestern Australian rainfall: prospects for very wet or dry years

Abstract The cool-season (May to October) rainfall decline in southwestern Australia deepened during 2001–2020 to become 20.5% less than the 1901–1960 reference period average, with a complete absence of very wet years (i.e., rainfall > 90th percentile). CMIP5 and CMIP6 climate model simulations...

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Main Authors: Surendra P. Rauniyar, Pandora Hope, Scott B. Power, Michael Grose, David Jones
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-12-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-48877-w