A hemispheric-scale quasi-decadal oscillation and its signature in Northern Japan

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 573-582

  Xie, Shang Ping ^a   Noguchi, Hideyuki ^a   Matsumura, Shinji ^b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention   (Japan)

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EID: 0033114350     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj1965.77.2_573     Document Type: Article

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