UNDERSTANDING EL NINO IN OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS : Progress and Challenges

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  2008

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  Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

• Publication date

  2008-12-01

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  Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1175/2008BAMS2387.1
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