High-latitude cold season frontal cloud systems and their precipitation efficiency
By: K. K. Szeto, R. E. Stewart and J. M. Hanesiak
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusa.v49i4.14682 | Journal eISSN: 3035-9554
Language: English
Page range: 439 - 454
Submitted on: Aug 2, 1996
Accepted on: Apr 11, 1997
Published on: Jan 1, 1997
Published by: Stockholm University Press
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© 1997 K. K. Szeto, R. E. Stewart, J. M. Hanesiak, published by Stockholm University Press
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