South American monsoon indices

Atmospheric Science Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 219-223

  Gan, Manoel A ^a   Rao, Vadlamudi B ^a   Moscati, Marley C L ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Index; Precipitation; South American monsoon; Wind

Indexed keywords

CIRCULATION; INDEX METHOD; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TEMPORAL VARIATION; WIND SHEAR;

SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 33645025304     PISSN: 1530261X     EISSN: 1530261X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asl.119     Document Type: Article

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