Meridional thermal field of a coupled ocean-atmosphere system: a conceptual model

Hsien-Wang Ou

doi:10.1111/j.1600-0870.2006.00174.x

Meridional thermal field of a coupled ocean-atmosphere system: a conceptual model

Tellus

Volume 58 (2006): Issue 3

By: Hsien-Wang Ou

Open Access

|Jan 2006

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