A preliminary study of the observed vertical mode structure of the summer circulation over tropical South America
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusa.v37i2.11665 | Journal eISSN: 3035-9554
Language: English
Page range: 185 - 195
Submitted on: Nov 14, 1983
Accepted on: Jun 19, 1983
Published on: Jan 1, 1985
Published by: Stockholm University Press
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© 1985 Pedro Leite da Silya Dias, José Paulo Bonatti, published by Stockholm University Press
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