Wave hindcast statistics in the seasonally ice-covered Baltic Sea

Boreal Environment Research

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 451-472

  Tuomi, Laura ^a   Kahma, Kimmo K ^a   Pettersson, Heidi ^a  

^a FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

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