Interannual variation of the summer synoptic-scale disturbance activity in the western tropical pacific

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 126, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1725-1733

  Chen, Tsing Chang ^a   Weng, Shu Ping ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SUMMER; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0032412984     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1998)126<1725:IVOTSS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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