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Role of convective parameterization in simulations of a convection band at grey-zone resolutions Cover

Role of convective parameterization in simulations of a convection band at grey-zone resolutions

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Volume 62 (2010): Issue 5
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0870.2010.00470.x | Journal eISSN: 3035-9554
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Language: English
Page range: 617 - 632
Submitted on: Dec 7, 2009
Accepted on: May 25, 2010
Published on: Jan 1, 2010
Published by: Stockholm University Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

© 2010 Xing Yu, Tae-Young Lee, published by Stockholm University Press
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