Stronger winds over a large lake in response to weakening air-to-lake temperature gradient

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 855-858

  Desai, Ankur R ^a   Austin, Jay A ^b   Bennington, Val ^a   McKinley, Galen A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

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EID: 71249125797     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo693     Document Type: Article

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