An assessment of the NCEP, NASA, and ECMWF reanalyses over the tropical west pacific warm pool

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 41-48

  Newman, Matthew ^a   Sardeshmukh, Prashant D ^a   Bergman, John W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

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EID: 0002691271     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0477(2000)081<0041:AAOTNN>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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