Atmospheric blocking and storm tracks during SOP-1 of the FROST project

Australian Meteorological Magazine

Volumn 48, Issue SPEC. ISS., 1999, Pages 51-60

  Pook, Michael J ^a   Gibson, Timothy ^b  

^a ANTARCTIC CLIMATE AND ECOSYSTEMS COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

^b NONE

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