Mississippi moisture budgets on regional scales

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 127, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 2654-2673

  Berbery, Ernesto H ^a   Rasmusson, Eugene M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-HYDROSPHERE INTERACTION; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; RIVER BASIN; WATER BUDGET;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033401185     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1999)127<2654:MMBORS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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