Summertime incursions of midlatitude air into subtropical and tropical South America

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 126, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 2713-2733

  Garreaud, René D ^a   Wallace, John M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR FLOW; EXTRATROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 0032455193     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1998)126<2713:SIOMAI>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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