The North American Monsoon

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 78, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 2197-2213

  Adams, David K ^a   Comrie, Andrew C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR MASS; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; MOISTURE SOURCE; MONSOON; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY;

EID: 0031429238     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0477(1997)078<2197:TNAM>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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