The influence of tropospheric static stability on upper-level frontogenesis

Marcel Saute

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v45i3.14867

The influence of tropospheric static stability on upper-level frontogenesis

Tellus

Volume 45 (1993): Issue 3

By: Marcel Saute

Open Access

|Jan 1993

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