The summertime low-level jet and marine boundary layer structure along the California coast

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 124, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 668-686

  Burk, Stephen D ^a   Thompson, William T ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

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EID: 0000279454     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1996)124<0668:TSLLJA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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