Statistical properties of the temperature maxima in an intermediate order Quasi-Geostrophic model

S. Vannitsem

doi:10.1111/j.1600-0870.2006.00206.x

Statistical properties of the temperature maxima in an intermediate order Quasi-Geostrophic model

Tellus

Volume 59 (2007): Issue 1

By: S. Vannitsem

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|Jan 2007

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