Degrees of freedom in Northern Hemisphere circulation data

Zoltan Toth

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v47i4.11531

Degrees of freedom in Northern Hemisphere circulation data

Tellus

Volume 47 (1995): Issue 4

By: Zoltan Toth

Open Access

|Jan 1995

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