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Upstream development in idealized baroclinic wave experiments

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|Jan 1999

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Language: English
Page range: 574 - 587
Submitted on: Oct 7, 1998
Accepted on: Jun 21, 1999
Published on: Jan 1, 1999
Published by: Stockholm University Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

© 1999 Heini Wernli, Melvyn A. Shapiro, Jürg Schmidli, published by Stockholm University Press
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