A monsoon depression over northwestern Australia part I: Case study

Australian Meteorological Magazine

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 21-40

  Hell, Reinhard M ^a   Smith, Roger K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b NONE

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