The use of dynamical constraints in the analysis of mesoscale rawinsonde data

Stephen C. Bloom

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v35i5.11447

The use of dynamical constraints in the analysis of mesoscale rawinsonde data

Tellus

Volume 35 (1983): Issue 5

By: Stephen C. Bloom

Open Access

|Jan 1983

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