The synoptic climatology of polar-low outbreaks over the Gulf of Alaska and the Bering Sea

Steven Businger

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v39i4.11762

The synoptic climatology of polar-low outbreaks over the Gulf of Alaska and the Bering Sea

Tellus

Volume 39 (1987): Issue 4

By: Steven Businger

Open Access

|Jan 1987

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