Planetary boundary layer structure and air mass transport during the International Arctic Ocean Expedition 1991

E. Douglas Nilsson

doi:10.3402/tellusb.v48i2.15835

Planetary boundary layer structure and air mass transport during the International Arctic Ocean Expedition 1991

Tellus B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology

Volume 48 (1996): Issue 2

By: E. Douglas Nilsson

Open Access

|Jan 1996

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