Bimodality of hemispheric winter atmospheric variability via average flow tendencies and kernel EOFs

A. Hannachi; W. Iqbal

doi:10.1080/16000870.2019.1633847

Bimodality of hemispheric winter atmospheric variability via average flow tendencies and kernel EOFs

Tellus

Volume 71 (2019): Issue 1

By: A. Hannachi and W. Iqbal

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|Jan 2019

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