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A significant proportion of the content presented in this thesis has been published in the following journal papers:

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Irving, D. B., and I. Simmonds, 2015. A novel approach to diagnosing Southern Hemisphere planetary wave activity and its influence on regional climate variability. \textit{Journal of Climate}, \textbf{28}, 9041--9057, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0287.1.

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Irving, D. B., in press. A minimum standard for publishing computational results in the weather and climate sciences. \textit{Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society}. doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-15-00010.1.

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Irving, D. B., and I. Simmonds, submitted. A new method for identifying the Pacific-South American pattern and its influence on regional climate variability. \textit{Journal of Climate}.

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\noindent Parts of the work were made possible by a grant (Number DP160101997) from the Australian Research Council. 

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