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Available potential energy and extratropical cyclone activity during the FGGE year

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|Jan 1984

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Language: English
Page range: 64 - 75
Submitted on: Jan 20, 1983
Accepted on: Apr 26, 1983
Published on: Jan 1, 1984
Published by: Stockholm University Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

© 1984 Thomas L. Koehler, Kyung Duck Min, published by Stockholm University Press
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