Summer upper-level vortex over the North Pacific

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 82, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 1991-2006

  Chen, Tsing Chang ^a   Yen, Ming Cheng ^b   Liu, Gin Rong ^b   Wang, Shu Yu ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

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EID: 0042909191     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0477(2001)082<1991:SULVOT>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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