The global atmospheric water cycle

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Bengtsson, Lennart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC WATER;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 77951929795     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/5/2/025202     Document Type: Review

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