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Original Articles

Mean fields of precipitable water over the Indian Ocean during the 1979 summer monsoon from TIROS-N soundings and FGGE data

Pages 329-345 | Received 22 Mar 1983, Accepted 30 May 1983, Published online: 18 Jan 2017

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