Climate variability in a low-order coupled atmosphere-ocean model

Paul J. Roebber

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v47i4.11534

Climate variability in a low-order coupled atmosphere-ocean model

Tellus

Volume 47 (1995): Issue 4

By: Paul J. Roebber

Open Access

|Jan 1995

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