Roles of the western North Pacific wind variation in thermocline adjustment and ENSO phase transition

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-16

  Wang, Bin ^a   Wu, Renguang ^a   Lukas, Roger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

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EID: 0033074681     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj1965.77.1_1     Document Type: Article

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