NCEP Forecasts of the El Niño of 1997-98 and Its U.S. Impacts

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 80, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1829-1852

  Barnston, Anthony G ^a,b   Leetmaa, Ants ^a   Kousky, Vernon E ^a   Livezey, Robert E ^a   O'Lenic, Edward A ^a   Van Den Dool, Huug ^a   Wagner, A James ^a   Unger, David A ^a  

^a CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

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EID: 0000215642     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0477(1999)080<1829:NFOTEN>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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