Multidecadal climate variability in the subtropics/ mid-latitudes of the Southern Hemisphere oceans

C. J. C. Reason

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v52i2.12259

Multidecadal climate variability in the subtropics/ mid-latitudes of the Southern Hemisphere oceans

Tellus

Volume 52 (2000): Issue 2

By: C. J. C. Reason

Open Access

|Jan 2000

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