Relationships between the intensity of cold-air outbreaks and the evolution of synoptic and planetary-scale features over North America

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 124, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1067-1083

  Konrad II, Charles E ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

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EID: 0000744476     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1996)124<1067:RBTIOC>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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