Evolution of the North American monsoon system

Journal of Climate

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 2238-2257

  Barlow, Mathew ^a   Nigam, Sumant ^a   Berbery, Ernesto H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATOLOGY; MONSOON;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 0032455481     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1998)011<2238:EOTNAM>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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