Linkage of atmospheric blocks and synoptic-scale Rossby waves: a climatological analysis
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0870.2008.00354.x | Journal eISSN: 3035-9554
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Submitted on: Jun 15, 2007
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