The Quasi-Biennial Oscillation (QBO) and Equatorial Waves
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عنوان ژورنال: Papers in Meteorology and Geophysics
سال: 1997
ISSN: 0031-126X,1880-6643
DOI: 10.2467/mripapers.48.1