The relationship of western boundary current heat transport and storage to midlatitude ocean-atmosphere interaction

Geophysical Monograph Series

Volumn 147, Issue , 2004, Pages 347-363

  Kelly, Kathryn A ^a   Dong, Shenfu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 85040186237     PISSN: 00658448     EISSN: 23288779     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1029/147GM19     Document Type: Chapter

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