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The sensitivity of supercritical atmospheric boundary-layer flow along a coastal mountain barrier Cover

The sensitivity of supercritical atmospheric boundary-layer flow along a coastal mountain barrier

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Volume 51 (1999): Issue 5
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|Jan 1999
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusa.v51i5.14499 | Journal eISSN: 3035-9554
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Language: English
Page range: 880 - 901
Submitted on: Sep 30, 1998
Accepted on: Jun 18, 1999
Published on: Jan 1, 1999
Published by: Stockholm University Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

© 1999 Michael Tjernström, published by Stockholm University Press
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