Diurnal variation of precipitation over the Indo-China Peninsula: Two-dimensional numerical simulation

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 461-475

  Satomura, Takehiko ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 0040193899     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj1965.78.4_461     Document Type: Article

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