Sensitivity of the Asian summer monsoon to an anomalous Eurasian snow cover within the Météo-France GCM

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 449-466

  Douville, H ^a   Royer, J F ^a  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARPEGE MODEL; ASIAN MONSOON; GCM; MONSOON; SNOW COVER;

ASIA;

EID: 0030372340     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02346818     Document Type: Article

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