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Connecting North Atlantic SST Variability to European Heat Events over the Past Decades

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|Nov 2023

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Language: English
Page range: 358 - 374
Submitted on: Mar 14, 2023
Accepted on: Oct 24, 2023
Published on: Nov 20, 2023
Published by: Stockholm University Press
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