Decadal Climate Variability in the North Pacific during the Recent Decades

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 78, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 2215-2225

  Nakamura, Hisashi ^a,b   Lin, G ^a   Yamagata, T ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Frontier Observational Research System for Global Change   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR MASS; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE SYSTEM; DECADAL VARIATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

PACIFIC, (NORTH);

EID: 0031432037     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0477(1997)078<2215:DCVITN>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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