Multi-scale summer rainfall variability over China and its long-term link to global sea surface temperature variability

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 845-857

  Weng, Hengyi ^a,b   Lau, K M ^a   Xue, Yongkang ^c  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b GENERAL SCIENCES CORPORATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

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EID: 0033177048     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj1965.77.4_845     Document Type: Article

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