Relationship between Bering Sea ice cover and East Asian winter monsoon year-to-year variations

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 48-56

  Li, Fei ^a,c   Wang, Huijun ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Bering Sea ice cover; East Asian winter monsoon; year to year variation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871349165     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-012-2071-2     Document Type: Article

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