A refinement of cyclone tracking methods with data from FROST

Australian Meteorological Magazine

Volumn 48, Issue SPEC. ISS., 1999, Pages 35-49

  Simmonds, Ian ^a   Murray, Ross J ^b   Leighton, R M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b NONE

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