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Intraseasonal Variability in the Atmosphere-Ocean Climate System pp 513–536Cite as

Oceans and air–sea interaction

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Since the publication of the First Edition of this book, many new studies have focused on the role of air–sea interaction in tropical atmospheric intraseasonal variability (ISV). The aim of this section is to summarize the results of these new studies and to extract their main conclusions.

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Lau, W.K.M., Waliser, D.E., Duvel, J.P. (2012). Oceans and air–sea interaction. In: Intraseasonal Variability in the Atmosphere-Ocean Climate System. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13914-7_15

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