Impacts of 1997-98 El Niño - Generated Weather in the United States

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 80, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1819-1827

  Changnon, Stanley A ^a  

^a Changnon Climatologist   (United States)

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EID: 0002468187     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0477(1999)080<1819:IOENOG>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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