Annual zonal displacement of Pacific warm pool in association with El Niño onset

Scientific Online Letters on the Atmosphere

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 149-152

  Ando, Kentaro ^a   Hasegawa, Takuya ^a  

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

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EID: 84905334468     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13496476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/sola.2009-038     Document Type: Article

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