Climatological characteristics of summer precipitation in Helsinki during the period 1951-2000

Boreal Environment Research

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 67-80

  Kilpeläinen, Tiina ^a,b   Tuomenvirta, Heikki ^a   Jylhä, Kirsti ^a  

^a FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b Centre in Svalbard   (Norway)

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