The steady enhancement of the Australian Summer Monsoon in the last 200 years

A new bicentennial series of the Australian monsoon strength based on historical wind observations has allowed for the assessment of the variability of this system since the early 19th century. Our series covers a period in which the scarcity of meteorological observations in the area had precluded...

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Autores: Gallego, David, García Herrera, Ricardo Francisco, Peña Ortiz, Cristina, Ribera, Pedro
Formato: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:España
Recursos:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/19070
Acesso em linha:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/19070
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:52
Reanalysis project
Global monsson
Variability
Rainfall
Tropics
Trends
Index
Record
Cliwoc
Física atmosférica
2501 Ciencias de la Atmósfera
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Resumo:A new bicentennial series of the Australian monsoon strength based on historical wind observations has allowed for the assessment of the variability of this system since the early 19th century. Our series covers a period in which the scarcity of meteorological observations in the area had precluded the evaluation of long-term climatic trends. Results indicate that the increase in precipitation over Northern Australia reported for the last 60 years is just a manifestation of a much longer lasting trend related to the strengthening of the Australian monsoon that has been occurring since at least 1816.