Interannual Variations of Summer Monsoons: Sensitivity to Cloud Radiative Forcing

Journal of Climate

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1883-1905

  Sharma, O P ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; MONSOON; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

INDIA;

EID: 0032462830     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442-11.8.1883     Document Type: Article

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