The Global Energy Balance Archive

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 831-850

  Gilgen, Hans ^a   Ohmura, A ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

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EID: 0001409407     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0477(1999)080<0831:TGEBA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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