Snowfall increase in coastal East Antarctica linked with southwest Western Australian drought

• Published in: Nature Geoscience
• Main Authors: van Ommen, TD, Morgan, VI
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Publishing Group 2010
• Subjects: Earth Sciences; Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience; Palaeoclimatology; East Antarctica; Law Dome; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1038/NGEO761; http://ecite.utas.edu.au/97705

The southwest corner of Western Australia has been subject to a serious drought in recent decades. A range of factors, such as natural variability and changes in land use, ocean temperatures and atmospheric circulation, have been implicated in this drought, but the ultimate cause and the relative im...