On the estimation of transport characteristics of atmospheric data sets

Arne M. Bratseth

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v50i4.14538

On the estimation of transport characteristics of atmospheric data sets

Tellus

Volume 50 (1998): Issue 4

By: Arne M. Bratseth

Open Access

|Jan 1998

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