Role of warming over the Tibetan Plateau in early onset of the summer monsoon over the Bay of Bengal and the South China Sea

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-12

  Ueda, Hiroaki ^a   Yasunari, Tetsuzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

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EID: 0009873979     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj1965.76.1_1     Document Type: Article

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