The Pacific-South American modes and tropical convection during the Southern Hemisphere winter

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 126, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1581-1596

  Mo, Kingtse C ^a   Higgins, R Wayne ^a  

^a CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; WINTER;

EID: 0032443060     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1998)126<1581:TPSAMA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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