BOBMEX: The Bay of Bengal Monsoon experiment

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 82, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 2217-2243

  Bhat, G S ^a   Gadgil, Sulochana ^a   Hareesh Kumar, P V ^b   Kalsi, S R ^c   Madhusoodanan, P ^b   Murty, V S N ^d   Prasada Rao, C V K ^b   Ramesh Babu, V ^d   Rao, L V G ^d   Rao, R R ^b   Ravichandran, M ^d   Reddy, K G ^e   Sanjeeva Rao, P ^f   Sengupta, D ^a   Sikka, D R ^g   Swain, J ^b   Vinayachandran, P N ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b NAVAL PHYSICAL AND OCEANOGRAPHIC LABORATORY   (India)

^c INDIA METEOROLOGICAL DEPARTMENT   (India)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (India)

^e ANDHRA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^f DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^g Mausam Vihar   (India)

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EID: 0000339443     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0477(2001)082<2217:BTBOBM>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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