Large-scale variations in suimmer rainfall over South and East Asia and their relations to anomalies of the sea level pressure field in the Tropics

Geographical Review of Japan, Series A

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 393-410

  Morishima, Wataru ^a   Mikami, Takehiko ^b  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAINFALL; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SUMMER RAINFALL;

ASIA;

EID: 0031756467     PISSN: 00167444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4157/grj1984a.71.6_393     Document Type: Article

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