Evidence of a relationship between the two main types of interannual climatic variability over the tropical Atlantic;Evidence d'une liaison entre les deux principaux modes de variabilite climatique internnuelle de l'Atlantique tropical

Comptes Rendus de l'Academie de Sciences - Serie IIa: Sciences de la Terre et des Planetes

Volumn 327, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-8

  Servain, Jacques ^a   Wainer, Ilana ^b   Dessier, Alain ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CYCLE; EQUATORIAL DYNAMICS; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

(TROPICAL); ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0032128865     PISSN: 12518050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1251-8050(98)80011-6     Document Type: Article

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