Coupled ocean-atmosphere dynamics in the Indian Ocean during 1997-98

Nature

Volumn 401, Issue 6751, 1999, Pages 356-360

  Webster, Peter J ^a   Moore, Andrew M ^a   Loschnigg, Johannes P ^a   Leben, Robert R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UCB 450   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CLIMATE; DYNAMICS; INDIAN OCEAN; OSCILLATION; PACIFIC OCEAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; TEMPERATURE;

INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 0033598342     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/43848     Document Type: Article

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