Wintertime surface winds over the Greenland Ice Sheet

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 124, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1941-1947

  Bromwich, David H ^a,b   Du, Yang ^a,b   Hines, Keith M ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0000871684     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1996)124<1941:WSWOTG>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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