Multiscale analysis of the summertime precipitation over the central Andes

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 127, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 901-921

  Garreaud, René D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUMMER;

ANDES; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 0032716641     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1999)127<0901:MAOTSP>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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