On the nature of the 1994 East Asian summer drought

Journal of Climate

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1056-1070

  Park, Chung Kyu ^a   Schubert, Siegfried D ^b  

^a National Typhoon Center   (South Korea)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; HEAT WAVE; MONSOON; REGIONAL WEATHER PATTERN; SUMMER;

ASIA, (EAST);

EID: 0031419851     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1997)010<1056:OTNOTE>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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