Fine structure of cloud patterns within the intraseasonal oscillation during TOGA COARE

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 127, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 2503-2513

  Wu, Xiaoqing ^a   Lemone, Margaret A ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC MOTION; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; TOGA-COARE;

EID: 0033382942     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1999)127<2503:FSOCPW>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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