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Understanding the predictability of seasonal precipitation over northeast Brazil

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Volume 58 (2006): Issue 3
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0870.2006.00175.x | Journal eISSN: 3035-9554
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Language: English
Page range: 307 - 319
Submitted on: Mar 31, 2005
Accepted on: Nov 4, 2005
Published on: Jan 1, 2006
Published by: Stockholm University Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

© 2006 Vasubandhu Misra, published by Stockholm University Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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