Extreme Rainfall Variability in Australia: Patterns, Drivers, and Predictability*

Rainfall in Queensland Part 1: A literature survey of key rainfall drivers in Queensland, Australia: Rainfall variability and change

Asymmetry in the response of eastern Australia extreme rainfall to lowfrequency Pacific variability

[1] This study investigates relationships between variability in the Pacific and extreme rainfall in eastern Australia. Using an index of extreme precipitation derived from a daily gridded precipitation data set from 1900 to 2011, we find that a nonlinear relationship between El Niño–Southern Oscillation and extreme rainfall exists. That is, the strength of a La Niña episode has a much greater ...

Rainfall in Queensland Part 4: The ability of HiGEM to simulate Queensland's rainfall variability and its drivers

Seasonal predictability and spatial coherence of rainfall

This study examines space-time characteristics of seasonal rainfall predictability in a tropical region, by analyzing observed data and model simulations over Senegal. Predictability is analyzed in terms of the spatial coherence of observed interannual variability at the station scale, and within-ensemble coherence of general circulation model (GCM) simulations with observed sea surface tempera...

Climate Variability and Predictability