Unstable transition of the tropical climate to an equatorially asymmetric state in a coupled ocean-atmosphere model

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 125, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 667-679

  Xie, Shang Ping ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 0344050698     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1997)125<0667:UTOTTC>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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