Articles | Volume 19, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-19-2057-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-19-2057-2015
Research article
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29 Apr 2015
Research article |  | 29 Apr 2015

Impacts of high inter-annual variability of rainfall on a century of extreme hydrologic regime of northwest Australia

A. Rouillard, G. Skrzypek, S. Dogramaci, C. Turney, and P. F. Grierson

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