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Atmospheric predictability revisited

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Language: English
Page range: 19022 - 19022
Submitted on: Jun 20, 2012
Accepted on: May 21, 2013
Published on: Dec 1, 2013
Published by: Stockholm University Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

© 2013 Lizzie S. R. Froude, Lennart Bengtsson, Kevin I. Hodges, published by Stockholm University Press
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