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Precipitation over multiscale terrain Cover

Precipitation over multiscale terrain

Tellus
Volume 59 (2007): Issue 3
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|Jan 2007
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0870.2007.00232.x | Journal eISSN: 3035-9554
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Language: English
Page range: 321 - 335
Submitted on: Jun 19, 2006
Accepted on: Jan 23, 2007
Published on: Jan 1, 2007
Published by: Stockholm University Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

© 2007 Qingfang Jiang, published by Stockholm University Press
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