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Diurnal cycle of precipitation amount and frequency in Sweden: observation versus model simulation Cover

Diurnal cycle of precipitation amount and frequency in Sweden: observation versus model simulation

Tellus
Volume 63 (2011): Issue 4
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|Jan 2011
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0870.2011.00517.x | Journal eISSN: 3035-9554
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Language: English
Page range: 664 - 674
Submitted on: Jul 31, 2010
Accepted on: Jan 26, 2011
Published on: Jan 1, 2011
Published by: Stockholm University Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

© 2011 Jee-Hoon Jeong, Alexander Walther, Grigory Nikulin, Deliang Chen, Colin Jones, published by Stockholm University Press
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