The monsoon as a self-regulating coupled ocean-atmosphere system

International Geophysics

Volumn 83, Issue C, 2002, Pages 198-219

  Webster, Peter J ^a   Clark, Christina ^a   Cherikova, Galina ^a   Fasullo, John ^a   Han, Weiqing ^a   Loschnigg, Johannes ^b   Sahami, Kamran ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

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EID: 77956758688     PISSN: 00746142     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0074-6142(02)80168-1     Document Type: Article

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