Winter time flow over and around Greenland: Trajectories related to torques

Tellus, Series A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 584-592

  Egger, Joseph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; JET STREAM; TORQUE; TRAJECTORY; WINTER;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND;

EID: 33748661981     PISSN: 02806495     EISSN: 16000870     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0870.2006.00198.x     Document Type: Article

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