Winter climate regimes over the North Atlantic and European region in ERA40 reanalysis and DEMETER seasonal hindcasts

C. Fil; L. Dubus

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v57i3.14671

Winter climate regimes over the North Atlantic and European region in ERA40 reanalysis and DEMETER seasonal hindcasts

Tellus

Volume 57 (2005): Issue 3

By: C. Fil and L. Dubus

Open Access

|Jan 2005

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