Climatic influences on rainfall and runoff variability in the southeast region of the Murray-Darling Basin

• Published in: International Journal of Climatology
• Main Authors: Kamruzzaman, M., Beecham, S., Metcalfe, A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: John Wiley & Sons Ltd 2013
• Subjects: regression model; correlation; factor analysis and pre-whitened process; Akaike Information Criterion; Southern Ocean; Pacific; Indian; Soi; Metcalfe
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2440/78959; https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.3422

The aim of this study is to establish a relationship between 11 correlated climatic indices and rainfall and runoff in the Murray-Darling Basin (MDB). The climatic indices are functions of sea surface temperature (SST) and sea level pressure (SLP) differentials. There are six Pacific Ocean indices,...