Annual and Daily Meteorological Cycles at High Altitude on a Tropical Mountain

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 79, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1899-1913

  Hardy, Douglas R ^a   Vuille, Mathias ^a   Braun, Garsten ^a   Keimig, Frank ^a   Bradley, Raymond S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METEOROLOGY; MOUNTAIN REGION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

BOLIVIA;

EID: 0032464948     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0477(1998)079<1899:AADMCA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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