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The relationship between inter-annual and intra-annual variability in atmospheric angular momentum in a GCM with climatological SSTs Cover

The relationship between inter-annual and intra-annual variability in atmospheric angular momentum in a GCM with climatological SSTs

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Volume 47 (1995): Issue 2
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusa.v47i2.11503 | Journal eISSN: 3035-9554
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Language: English
Page range: 240 - 258
Submitted on: May 17, 1993
Accepted on: May 18, 1994
Published on: Jan 1, 1995
Published by: Stockholm University Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

© 1995 Steven B. Feldstein, published by Stockholm University Press
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