Misforecasts of synoptic systems: Diagnosis via PV retrodiction

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 125, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 2247-2264

  Fehlmann, René ^a   Davies, Huw C ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

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EID: 0000667047     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1997)125<2247:MOSSDV>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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