Peculiar temporal structure of the South China Sea summer monsoon

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 177-194

  Wang, Bin ^a   Wu, Renguang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Bi modal interannual variation; Monsoon over SCS; Spectrum of precipitation; Subseasonal cycles

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001254288     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-997-0018-9     Document Type: Article

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