Nonlinear Dynamics and Climate Change: Rossby's Legacy

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 79, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1411-1423

  Palmer, T N ^a  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ROSSBY WAVE;

EID: 0032466490     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0477(1998)079<1411:NDACCR>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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