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Diabatic initialization for improvement in the tropical analysis of divergence and moisture using satellite radiometric imagery data Cover

Diabatic initialization for improvement in the tropical analysis of divergence and moisture using satellite radiometric imagery data

Tellus
Volume 46 (1994): Issue 3
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|Jan 1994
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusa.v46i3.15477 | Journal eISSN: 3035-9554
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Language: English
Page range: 242 - 264
Submitted on: Feb 2, 1993
Accepted on: Aug 30, 1993
Published on: Jan 1, 1994
Published by: Stockholm University Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

© 1994 Akira Kasahara, Arthur P. Mizzi, Leo J. Donner, published by Stockholm University Press
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