The moisture budget of the central United States in spring as evaluated in the NCEP/NCAR and the NASA/DAO reanalyses

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 124, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 939-963

  Higgins, R W ^a,c   Mo, K C ^a   Schubert, S D ^b  

^a CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c NCEP/Climate Prediction Center   (United States)

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EID: 0000697938     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1996)124<0939:TMBOTC>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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