Oceanic origin of southeast tropical Atlantic biases

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 43, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 2915-2930

  Xu, Zhao ^a,b   Li, Mingkui ^a,b   Patricola, Christina M ^b   Chang, Ping ^a,b  

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84881502129     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-013-1901-y     Document Type: Article

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