Meeting summary: Report of a Workshop on "Theoretical and Observational Studies of Polar Lows" of the European Geophysical Society Polar Lows Working Group

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 78, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 2643-2658

  Heinemann, Günther ^a   Claud, Chantal ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

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EID: 0000149482     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0477-78.11.2643     Document Type: Article

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