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Mechanisms underlying temperature extremes in Iberia: a Lagrangian perspective Cover

Mechanisms underlying temperature extremes in Iberia: a Lagrangian perspective

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Volume 67 (2015): Issue 1
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|Dec 2015
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusa.v67.26032 | Journal eISSN: 3035-9554
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Language: English
Page range: 26032 - 26032
Submitted on: Sep 16, 2014
Accepted on: Mar 4, 2015
Published on: Dec 1, 2015
Published by: Stockholm University Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Keywords:
temperature extremes,
cold episodes,
warm episodes,
Lagrangian trajectories,
large-scale circulation,
surface fluxes,
Iberian Peninsula,
ERA-Interim

© 2015 João A. Santos, Stephan Pfahl, Joaquim G. Pinto, Heini Wernli, published by Stockholm University Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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