Aspects of the large-scale tropical atmospheric circulation

Tellus, Series A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography

Volumn 51, Issue 1 SPEC. ISS., 1999, Pages 33-44

  Hoskins, Brian ^b   Neale, Richard ^b   Rodwell, Mark ^a,b   Yang, Gui Ying ^b  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MONSOON; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY;

EID: 0032970512     PISSN: 02806495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0870.1999.t01-1-00004.x     Document Type: Article

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