Effect of Tibetan spring snow on the Indian summer monsoon circulation and associated rainfall

Current Science

Volumn 88, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1840-1844

  Shekhar, M S ^a   Dash, S K ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

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