Winter time flow over and around Greenland: trajectories related to torques

Joseph Egger

doi:10.1111/j.1600-0870.2006.00198.x

Winter time flow over and around Greenland: trajectories related to torques

Tellus

Volume 58 (2006): Issue 5

By: Joseph Egger

Open Access

|Jan 2006

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