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Non-stationary drainage flows and motions in the cold pool Cover

Non-stationary drainage flows and motions in the cold pool

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Volume 62 (2010): Issue 5
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|Jan 2010
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0870.2010.00473.x | Journal eISSN: 3035-9554
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Language: English
Page range: 698 - 705
Submitted on: Jan 25, 2010
Accepted on: Jun 24, 2010
Published on: Jan 1, 2010
Published by: Stockholm University Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

© 2010 L. Mahrt, Scott Richardson, Nelson Seaman, David Stauffer, published by Stockholm University Press
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