Statistics of locally coupled ocean and atmosphere intraseasonal anomalies in reanalysis and AMIP data

Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 245-251

  Pena, M ^a   Kalnay, E ^a   Cai, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; NONLINEARITY;

EID: 0037530559     PISSN: 10235809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/npg-10-245-2003     Document Type: Article

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