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Cloudiness parameterization and verification in a large-scale atmospheric model Cover

Cloudiness parameterization and verification in a large-scale atmospheric model

Tellus
Volume 46 (1994): Issue 5
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|Jan 1994
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusa.v46i5.15648 | Journal eISSN: 3035-9554
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Language: English
Page range: 615 - 634
Submitted on: May 13, 1993
Accepted on: Oct 27, 1993
Published on: Jan 1, 1994
Published by: Stockholm University Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

© 1994 Ashu P. Dastoor, published by Stockholm University Press
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