Toward understanding tropical atlantic variability using coupled modeling surgery

Geophysical Monograph Series

Volumn 147, Issue , 2004, Pages 157-170

  Wu, Lixin ^a   Zhang, Qiong ^b   Liu, Zhengyu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

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EID: 33947381769     PISSN: 00658448     EISSN: 23288779     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1029/147GM09     Document Type: Chapter

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