Climatology and interannual variation of the East Asian winter monsoon: Results from the 1979-95 NCEP/NCAR reanalysis

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 125, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 2605-2619

  Zhang, Yi ^a   Sperber, Kenneth R ^a   Boyle, James S ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

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EID: 0000957892     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1997)125<2605:CAIVOT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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