The intensity of precipitation during extratropical cyclones in global warming simulations: a link to cyclone intensity?

I. G. Watterson

doi:10.1111/j.1600-0870.2006.00147.x

The intensity of precipitation during extratropical cyclones in global warming simulations: a link to cyclone intensity?

Tellus

Volume 58 (2006): Issue 1

By: I. G. Watterson

Open Access

|Jan 2006

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