Coupled ocean-atmosphere variability in the tropical Indian ocean

Geophysical Monograph Series

Volumn 147, Issue , 2004, Pages 189-211

  Yamagata, Toshio ^a,b   Behera, Swadhin K ^a   Luo, Jing Jia ^a   Masson, Sebastien ^a   Jury, Mark R ^c   Rao, Suryachandra A ^a  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZULULAND   (South Africa)

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EID: 84875537203     PISSN: 00658448     EISSN: 23288779     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1029/147GM12     Document Type: Chapter

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