Choice of South Asian Summer Monsoon Indices

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 629-638

  Wang, Bin ^a   Fan, Zhen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

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EID: 0000904006     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0477(1999)080<0629:COSASM>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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