Western Pacific Warm Pool Region Sensitivity to Convective Triggering by Boundary Layer Thermals in the NOGAPS Atmospheric GCM

Journal of Climate

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1553-1573

  Ridout, James A ^a,b   Reynolds, Carolyn A ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NRL   (United States)

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EID: 0007675983     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1998)011<1553:WPWPRS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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