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Decadal variations in mean and extreme sea level values along the Estonian coast of the Baltic Sea Cover

Decadal variations in mean and extreme sea level values along the Estonian coast of the Baltic Sea

Tellus
Volume 59 (2007): Issue 2
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|Jan 2007
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0870.2006.00220.x | Journal eISSN: 3035-9554
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Language: English
Page range: 249 - 260
Submitted on: Apr 29, 2006
Accepted on: Nov 14, 2006
Published on: Jan 1, 2007
Published by: Stockholm University Press
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© 2007 Ülo Suursaar, Jekaterina Sooäär, published by Stockholm University Press
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