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On the origin of interdecadal oscillations in a coupled ocean–atmosphere model Cover

On the origin of interdecadal oscillations in a coupled ocean–atmosphere model

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Volume 59 (2007): Issue 3
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|Jan 2007
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0870.2007.00227.x | Journal eISSN: 3035-9554
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Language: English
Page range: 367 - 383
Submitted on: Sep 4, 2006
Accepted on: Dec 22, 2006
Published on: Jan 1, 2007
Published by: Stockholm University Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

© 2007 Olivier Arzel, Alain Colin de Verdière, Thierry Huck, published by Stockholm University Press
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