Tropical intraseasonal oscillation appearing in operational analyses and in a family of general circulation models

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 54, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1185-1202

  Gualdi, Silvio ^a   Navarra, Antonio ^a   Von Storch, Hans ^b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

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EID: 0031473450     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1997)054<1185:TIOAIO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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