Atmospheric Circulations and Sea Surface Temperatures Related to the Convection over the Western Pacific Warm Pool on the Interannual Scale

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 269-282

  Lu, Riyu ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Convection over the western Pacific warm pool; Northwest Pacific subtropical high; Sea surface temperatures

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346125324     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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