Mesoscale cellular convection: is it convection?

Brian H. Fiedler

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v37i2.11663

Mesoscale cellular convection: is it convection?

Tellus

Volume 37 (1985): Issue 2

By: Brian H. Fiedler

Open Access

|Jan 1985

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