The climatology and interannual variability of the East Asian winter Monsoon in CMIP5 models

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1659-1678

  Gong, Hainan ^a   Wang, Lin ^a   Chen, Wen ^a   Wu, Renguang ^b   Wei, Ke ^a   Cui, Xuefeng ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 84893843294     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00039.1     Document Type: Article

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