Seasonal climate summary southern hemisphere (spring 1999): A transition toward a second successive cool episode (La Niña)

Australian Meteorological Magazine

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 319-330

  Watkins, Andrew B ^a  

^a BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

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