Interdecadal Variation in U.S. Pacific Coast Precipitation over the Past Four Decades

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1197-1205

  Chen, Tsing Chang ^a   Chen, Jau Ming ^a   Wikle, Christopher K ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHT; INTERDECADAL VARIATION; PRECIPITATION;

USA, PACIFIC COAST;

EID: 0030431238     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0477(1996)077<1197:IVIUPC>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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