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Optimal initial perturbations for 2 cases of extratropical cyclogenesis Cover

Optimal initial perturbations for 2 cases of extratropical cyclogenesis

Tellus
Volume 50 (1998): Issue 2
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusa.v50i2.14518 | Journal eISSN: 3035-9554
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Language: English
Page range: 143 - 166
Submitted on: Mar 6, 1997
Accepted on: Oct 13, 1997
Published on: Jan 1, 1998
Published by: Stockholm University Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

© 1998 Tomislava Vukićević, published by Stockholm University Press
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